Shock Wave

Book (Chapter) indicates the chapter(s) in which the vessel (either fictitious or historic) is actually in the adventure and excludes references in which the vessel is only discussed.

Book (Chapter)* indicates the chapter(s) in which the vessel (either fictitious or historic) is only mentioned in the book.

Vessel:

Skipper:

Book (Chapter):

Alcoa Seaprobe

 

Shock Wave (48)*

Aleksandr Gorchakov

Shock Wave (25)

Amie & Jason, a whaling ship.

Shock Wave (The Legacy)*

Bonhomme Richard, a frigate.

John Paul Jones

Shock Wave (11)*

Bounty

Shock Wave (The Legacy, 15)*

H.M.S. Bridlington, a Canadian navy destroyer.

Captain Ian Briscoe

Shock Wave (25)

Carpathia

Captain Arthur Rostron

Shock Wave (36)*

U.S.S. Constitution, "Old Ironsides", a frigate.

 

Shock Wave (11)*

Culloden, a clipper ship.

Captain Charles "Bully' Scaggs

Shock Wave (The Legacy)*

Cutty Sark, a clipper ship.

Shock Wave (The Legacy)*

Dancing Dorothy, a Bermuda ketch shipwreck.

Rodney York

Shock Wave (39, 40)

Duo 300 WetJets.

Shock Wave (21, 24)

Empress of Ireland

 

Shock Wave (19)*

Enterprise, an aircraft carrier.

 

Shock Wave (11, 33, 41)*

Gladiator, a clipper ship.

Captain Charles "Bully' Scaggs

Shock Wave (Raft of the Gladiator,
The Inferno, 15, 36)*

Glomar Explorer, a salvage vessel.
  • Howard Hughes had the ship built in the 1970s on a secret contract to the CIA to retrieve a sunken Soviet submarine.
  • Captain James Quick

    Shock Wave (48, 51, 53)

    Hercules, a clipper ship.

    Captain John Kendricks

    Shock Wave (Raft of the Gladiator)*

    Ice Hunter, a NUMA research ship.

    Captain Paul Dempsey

    Shock Wave (4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 13)

    Iowa, a battleship.

    Shock Wave (46)*

    Java, a British frigate.

     

    Shock Wave (11)*

    Jupiter, a clipper ship.

    Captain Wilson Asher

    Shock Wave (The Legacy)*

    Lady Flamborough

     

    Shock Wave (5)*

    Lanikai, a small interisland freighter.

     

    Shock Wave (46, 48)

    Marvelous Maeve, a trimaran built by Dirk Pitt, Al Giordino and Maeve Fletcher.

     

    Shock Wave (44, 47, 49)

    Mentawai, an Indonesian freighter.

     

    Shock Wave (12)

    Merrimack , a Conferderate ironclad.

  • Also known as the Virginia.
  •  

    Shock Wave (11)*

    Monitor, an ironclad.

     

    Shock Wave (11)*

    Nimitz, an aircraft carrier.

     

    Shock Wave (24)*

    Ocean Angler, a NUMA research ship.

    Captain Joe Ross

    Shock Wave (29)

    Polar Queen, a cruise ship.

     

    Shock Wave (1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10)

    Rio Grande, a US container carrier.

    Captain Jason Kelsey

    Shock Wave (12)

    Roosevelt, an aircraft carrier.

     

    Shock Wave (41, 46, 48)*

    Sandecker's old Naval double-ender whaleboat.

     

    Shock Wave (33)

    Serapis, a British frigate.

     

    Shock Wave (11)*

    Semi-inflatable boat.
  • Dirk Pitt, Al Giordino, and Maeve Fletcher are on board.
  • Shock Wave (31, 32, 35, 36, 38, 39)

    Thermopylae, a clipper ship.

    Shock Wave (The Legacy)*

    Titanic

     

    Shock Wave (36)*

    Tucson, a US nuclear submarine.

    Admiral Sandecker's last command

    Shock Wave (11)*

    Tz'u-hsi, a yacht owned by Dorsett.

    Garet Converse (actor)

    Shock Wave (12, 22, 24, 30, 31, 55, 57)

    Virginia , a Conferderate ironclad.

  • Commonly known as the Merrimack.
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    Shock Wave (11)*

    Zanzibar

    Shock Wave (The Legacy)*

    Zodiac inflatable boat.

    Shock Wave (1, 2)


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