Welcome to SRINA's Shipwreck Archives and Research Library. SRINA is the "Spence Riebe Institute & Nautical Archives" and is part of the Sea Research Society. SRINA is located at the Summerville, South Carolina headquarters of the International Diving Institute. SRINA was named for its initial contributors and directors, shipwreck experts Dr. E. Lee Spence and Alan Riebe. Spence and Riebe are actively involved in the management of the shipwreck archives and research library.
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DOCUMENTS & BOOKS
Government Documents: Besides individual documents and xerox copies of documents, such as ship's registers and enrollments, the library has hundreds of bound volumes of collections of U.S. government documents. They collectively contain tens of thousands of individual government documents. The collection also includes a number of government manuals and studies.
Azimuths of Celestial Bodies, Whose declinations range from 24 to 70 degrees for Latitudes extending to 70 degrees from the equator, No. 120, Fourth Edition, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1916
List of Merchant Vessels of the United States With Official Numbers and Signal Letters (Annual List) Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Navigation, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1912 (Note: the library has most of the annual lists from 1892 through 1972)
The NOAA Diving Manual: Diving for Science and Technology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, various years and bindings through current edition.
Perilous Journeys: A History of Steamboating on the Chattahoochee, Apalachicola, and Flint Rivers, 1828-1928 by Edward A. Mueller, Historic Chattahoochee Commission, Eufaulia, Alabama, 1990
Special Lists Number 22, List of American-Flag Merchant Vessels that received Certificates of Enrollment or Registry at the Port of New York, 1789-1867, Volumes 1 and II, The National Archives and Records Service, GSA, Washington, 1968
Special List Number 44, List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947, National Archives and Records Service, GSA, Washington, 1978
Books: The library has thousands of non-fiction books covering a wide range of topics.
1600 Years Under the Sea by Ted Falcon-Barker
A Checklist of Narratives of Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea to 1860, with Summaries, Notes, and Comments by Keith Huntress, Iowa State University Press, Ames, 1979
Deep Water, Ancient Ships: The Treasure Vault of the Mediterranean by Williard Bascom, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1976
Encyclopedia of American Shipwrecks by Bruce D. Berman, The Mariners Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 1972
Georgia's Fabulous Treasure Hoards by Ernest M. Andrews, Hapeville, Georgia 1966
Graveyard of the Atlantic: Shipwrecks of the North Carolina Coast by David Stick (signed by the author), University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1st edition, 1952
History of the Confederate States Navy: From its Organization to The Surrender of its Last Vessel by J. Thomas Scharf, The Fairfax Press, 1977
Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads by William N. Still Jr., Vanderbilt University Press, 1971
Lloyd's War Losses, The Second World War, Bound in Two Volumes, Lloyd's of London Press, Ltd., 1991
Lore of the Wreckers by Birse Shepard, Beacon Press, Boston, 1961
Marine Antiques by Marian Klamkin, Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1975
Marine Metals Manual: A handbook for Boatman, Builders and Dealers, by Roger Pretzer, International Marine Publishing Company, Camden, Maine, 1975
The Master Diver and Underwater Sportsman by T.A. Hampton, John de Graff, Inc., New York, 1955
The Outer Banks of North Carolina 1584 -1958 (signed by the author), University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1st edition, 1958
Practical Ship Production by A. W. Carmichael, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York and London, 1941
Principles of Naval Architecture edited by John P. Comstock, Newport News, 1967
The Sailing Ships of New England, Series Three, by George Francis Dow, Marine Research Society, Salem, Massachusetts, 1928
The Salvager: The Life of Captain Tom Reid on the Great Lakes by Mary Francis Doner, Ross and Haines Inc., Minneapolis, Minn., 1958
The Seaweed Handbook: An illustrated Guide to Seaweeds from North Carolina to the Artic by Thomas F. Lee, Ph.D., Illustrated by Wendy Webster, The Mariners Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 1977
Shipwrecks of the Lakes by Dana Thomas Bowen, Freshwater Press, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, copyright 1952, eighth printing 1984
Steamboats and Modern Steam Launches, A reproduction of a magazine published during the years 1961-1963, edited by Bill Durham, Howell-North Books, Burbank, California, 1973
Way's Packet Directory, 1848-1983, Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River System Since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America, Compiled by Frederick Way, Jr., Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, 1983
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Note 1: By special agreement, the International Diving Institute houses SRINA's Shipwreck Archives & Library at IDI's corporate headquarters in Summerville, South Carolina. The collection includes thousands of books, magazines, maps and charts relating to shipwrecks, underwater archaeology and oceanography. It also includes have tens of thousands of prints, photographs and slides relating to sport and commercial divers and dive related work ranging from underwater welding, non-destructive testing (NDT), chamber operations to shipwrecks. Many of these were taken by the late Mike Freeman. Freeman was one of the pioneers of scuba diving and underwater photography and was closely associated with National Geographic Magazine for much of his diving career. SRINA is a part of the Sea Research Society (www.shipwrecks.com).
Note 2: Other than officers of Sea Research Society and IDI, "in-library" use of the collection is limited to current IDI students and for IDI related projects and by appointment only. There are further restrictions on some parts of the collection.
Note 3: At the actual library, IDI students can read about and research virtual every dive related topic from sunken treasure to the evolution of diving gear. Some documents are confidential and are not available to students as they touch on current and/or future archaeological projects of SRINA.
Note 4: SRINA's shipwreck archives and research library collections were originally assembled by Dr. E. Lee Spence, Alan Riebe, Robert R. Nielsen, Sr., and Mike Freeman. All collections are the property of the Sea Research Society and are on loan to the International Diving Institute by special arrangement.
* SRINA is part of the Sea Research Society and is housed at the International Diving Institute. SRINA is a trademark of the Sea Research Society.
