Ernest Cox

Ernest Cox

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 Further reading list give good accounts of Cox's many feats.

Further reading

*cite book
last=Buxton
first=Ian L.
authorlink=
coauthors=
title=Metal Industries: shipbreaking at Rosyth and Charlestown
year=1992
publisher=World Ship Society
location=
pages=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.
* cite book
last = Bowman
first = Gerald
title = The Man Who Bought a Navy: The Story of the World's Greatest Salvage Achievement at Scapa Flow
publisher = Harrap
year = 1964
location = London
oclc = 2219189
(Republished by Peter Rowlands and Stephen Birchall, 1998.)
* cite book
last = Gores
first = Joseph N
title = Marine Salvage: The Unforgiving Business of No Cure, No Pay. Preface by Willard Bascom
publisher = Doubleday
year = 1971
location = Garden City, NY, USA
oclc = 136301

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2497494 "The Scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet, 1919" (from BBC's h2g2)]
* [http://www.worldwar1.co.uk/scuttle.html "Scapa Flow Scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet"]
*cite book
last=George
first=S. C.
title=Jutland to Junkyard
year=1981
publisher=Paul Harris Publishing
location=Edinburgh
isbn=0-86228-029-X
Describes the scuttling of the High Seas Fleet.


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