User:Maralia/Donald Shomette

Donald Shomette is director of Cultural Resource Management, a historical consultant for the US Navy and the National Geographic Society, and a former staff member for the Library of Congress. 10525 Ward Rd., Dunkirk, MD 20754 He is also an author on the topic of the pirates on the Chesapeake and has appeared on a History channel documentary about the pirates on the Chesapeake. He has one son named Kyle Shomette and a wife named Carol Shomette. He also has three grandchildren named Lanie Shomette, Julian Shomette, and Tristan Shomette. He is currently working on a new mystery novel that may be adapted into a movie.

Sources

• "Donald G Shomette". The Filey Bay Initiative.
• Fannin, Brian (June 22, 1995). "The Chesapeake's submerged secrets - Wrecks are storehouses of history". The Washington Times, p. C10.
• Ruppé, Carol and Jan Barstad (2002). "[http://books.google.com/books?id=A4MHdpqr8g4C&pg=PA103&lpg=PA103&dq=%22donald+shomette%22&source=web&ots=n9NZ7xjpOO&sig=3zNFMNp22URmgse1nuzjh2ZG5Js&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result International Handbook of Underwater Archaeology". Springer. ISBN 9780306463457.
• "The Chesapeake Flotilla Project". Maryland Historical Trust.
• Hellman, Reed (October 27–November 2, 2005). "The Ghost Fleet's Graveyard". Bay Weekly 13:43.
• Gensor, Lynn (April 26, 1996). "Diving into History - Underwater in the Name of Archaeology". The Washington Post, p. B5.
• Okie, Susan and Philip J. Hilts (March 23, 1987). "Reading Tales of Shipwrecks". The Washington Post', p. A3.
• "Filey wreck may be Bonhomme Richard". BBC (September 6, 2002).
• "The Empire Strikes Back -- On the East End, in 1674". Transcript of a lecture delivered by Donald Shomette on September 12, 1998. East Hampton Library, Long Island Collection.
• "Donald Grady Shomette". Smithsonian Journeys.

Mallows Bay

• http://www.tpl.org/tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=11378&folder_id=625

Published works

• Shipwrecks of the Civil War : the encyclopedia of Union and Confederate naval losses (1973) OCLC 1490411
• A Reconnaissance of drowned cultural resources at Londontown, Maryland (1976) OCLC 8401457
• London Town: A Brief History (1978) OCLC 4887425
• Flotilla: Battle for the Patuxent (1981) OCLC 7967914
• The Patuxent River submerged cultural resource survey : Drum Point to Queen Anne's Bridge, Maryland (1981) OCLC 9372626
• War on the Patuxent, 1814 : a catalog of artifacts with Fred W. Hopkins (1981) OCLC 9587311
• Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake: Maritime Disasters on Chesapeake Bay and Its Tributaries, 1608-1978 with Ralph E. Eshelman and Maryland Historical Trust (1982) ISBN 9780870332838 OCLC 8283905
• Pirates on the Chesapeake: Being a True History of Pirates, Picaroons, and Raiders on Chesapeake Bay, 1610-1807 (1985) ISBN 978-0870333439 OCLC 12420298
• Maritime Alexandria : an evaluation of submerged cultural resource potentials at Alexandria, Virginia (1985) OCLC 13756166
• The Othello affair : the pursuit of French pirates on Patuxent River, Maryland, August 1807 (1985) OCLC 17296206
• Raid on America: The Dutch Naval Campaign of 1672-1674 (Studies in Maritime History) (1988) ISBN 978-0872495654 OCLC 246524016
• A preliminary inventory of major vessel losses in Arkansas waters, 1824-1966 (1990) OCLC 174237234
• The Hunt for HMS De Braak : Legend and Legacy (1993) ISBN 978-0890895139 OCLC 28440659
• The U-1105 survey : a report on the 1993 archaeological survey of 18ST636, a second world war German submarine in the Potomac River, Maryland (1994) OCLC 34112968
• Tidewater Time Capsule: History Beneath the Patuxent: History Beneath the Patuxent (1995) ISBN 978-0870334634 OCLC 31436750
• Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay and Other Tales of the Lost Chesapeake (1996) ISBN 978-0870334801 OCLC 35103126
• United States Navy shipwrecks in Maryland : inventory and assessment (1997) OCLC 68226427 note his paper on this topic here
• Lost Towns of Tidewater Maryland (2000) ISBN 978-0870335273 OCLC 44669488
• Maritime Alexandria (Virginia): The Rise and Fall of an American Entrepôt (2003) ISBN 978-0788423642 OCLC 53847624
• Shipwrecks, Sea Raiders, and Maritime Disasters along the Delmarva Coast, 1632–2004 (2007) ISBN 978-0801886706 OCLC 77573873
• Pirates on the Chesapeake (2008) ISBN 978-0870336072

Journal publications

• Campbell, Lyall and Donald Shomette. "Sable Island Shipwrecks: Disaster and Survival at the North Atlantic Graveyard". The American Neptune 55:4 (1995) p. 370.
• more at WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ADonald+Shomette&fq=dt%3Aart&qt=facet_dt%3A