Ernest Cox
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Ernest F. G. Cox (1883–1959) was an engineer and marine salvage expert from Wolverhampton. Between 1924 and 1931 his Cox & Danks Shipbreaking Co. successfully raised 35 of the German fleet that had been scuttled at Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow in 1919. He eventually sold the business to the Alloa Shipbreaking Company. The books in the Suggested reading list give good accounts of Cox's many feats.
[edit] Further reading
- Buxton, Ian L. (1992). Metal Industries: shipbreaking at Rosyth and Charlestown. World Ship Society, 104. OCLC 28508051. Ships scrapped, including Mauretania and much of the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow. Ships listed with owners and dates sold.
- Bowman, Gerald (1964). The Man Who Bought a Navy: The Story of the World's Greatest Salvage Achievement at Scapa Flow. London: Harrap. OCLC 2219189. (Republished by Peter Rowlands and Stephen Birchall, 1998.)
- Gores, Joseph N (1971). Marine Salvage: The Unforgiving Business of No Cure, No Pay. Preface by Willard Bascom. Garden City, NY, USA: Doubleday. OCLC 136301.
- The Scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet, 1919 (from BBC's h2g2)
- Scapa Flow Scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet
- George, S. C. (1981). Jutland to Junkyard. Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing. ISBN 0-86228-029-X. Describes the scuttling of the High Seas Fleet.
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