When the call for aid came from the helpless men, women and children, marooned on the desert beach, the men of the South African Navel Forces, the Air Forces, the Army and Police and the Administration for Railways and Harbours and even the Royal Navy got together to organize this amazing rescue operation.

More than a thousand such vessels of various sizes litter the coast, notably the Eduard Bohlen, Benguela Eagle, Otavi, Dunedin Star and Tong Taw. The name "Skeleton Coast" was coined by John Henry Marsh as the title for the book he wrote chronicling the shipwreck of the Dunedin Star.

Aug 9, 2013 · Marsh, John H. (John Henry); Anson, Lyman, joint author. Publication date 1958 Topics Dunedin Star (Steamship) Publisher New York, Dodd, Mead Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 1.0G . 276 p. 22 cm Notes.

JOHN HENRY MARSH is the doyen of South Africa's maritime historians. And Skeleton Coast is his story to beat every other story in his 50 years of waterfront reporting.

John Henry Marsh (1914-1996) was a South African shipping expert, author and journalist. John H. Marsh was born on 07.03.1914 in Sea Point near Cape Town and showed a keen interest in ships from childhood on.

Born in Sea Point, Cape Town on the 7th March, Marsh found in shipping an ongoing source of true tales of high drama that inspired him from the age of 9 when he started collecting pictures of ships until his death in Johannesburg among his beloved Maritime reference books …

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John Henry Marsh is the author of Skeleton Coast (4.06 avg rating, 31 ratings, 6 reviews, published 1944) and No Pathway Here (5.00 avg rating, 1 rating,...