Pitt and Loren Smith arrive in San Felipe and meet Giordino and Gunn at the ferryboat, the Alhambra in Inca Gold (36).

Clive Cussler grew up in Alhambra, California.

This from Raise the Titanic ;

"How about the supply ships?" Pitt asked.
"No problem there. This weather is duck soup to big ten-tonners the likes of these two. The Alhambra is in position to port, and the Monterey Park is right where she's supposed to be to starboard."

Cheers t:

Pitt and Giordino check out the Bartholomeaux Sugar Processing Plant in Flood Tide.

Carole Bartholomeaux was Clive Cussler's long time publicist...

No to mention, uh, you know, Dirk...
:P

Dirk Pitt was born in Newport Beach, California.

Clive Cussler created "the character" and wrote the first two Dirk Pitt adventures in Newport Beach, California.

b:

Notice familar names when you compare Clive Cussler's expeditions and his books?

CYCLOPS (Cyclops)
INVINCIBLE (Dragon)
H.M.S. PATHFINDER(Deep Six)
STONEWALL JACKSON(Deep Six)
U.S.S. WEEHAWKEN (Flood Tide)

and perhaps other references... b: t: w:

While on the related subject of maritime expeditions, Cussler's non-profit agency is actually named "after" the agency he created in his Dirk Pitt adventures --- NUMA!

The U.S.S. Merrimack was an ironclad just like the "Texas" in Sahara.

The National Underwater & Marine Agency (NUMA) was an idea forwarded by an attorney and eventual president of NUMA, Wayne Gronquist. Clive Cussler himself was against the idea but was out-voted.

p:

I`m rereading Night Probe right now, and I noticed that Heidi Milligan was assigned to the USS Arvada for sea duty; Arvada, Colorado being where Dr. C keeps his classic car collection. w:

Clive Cussler's involvement with the search for John Paul Jones 's famous Revolutionary War ship, the Bonhomme Richard , led to his establishing NUMA:
"Then in 1979 during an expedition, where I was searching for John Paul Jones' ship, the Bonhomme Richard an Austin attorney who was a volunteer suggested that I should incorporate as a non-profit organization rather than just write the checks out of my own bank account. So that is what I did and that is how NUMA became a non-profit organization in Texas." [Interview by Marc Levesque cited at Numa.net]

 Admiral Sandecker dines at the John Paul Jones Club in Treasure (22).

 "During the with fight the British frigate Serapis in the North Sea, Jones is credited with saying, "Sir, I have not yet begun to fight." The American crew eventually boarded and took the Serapis where they watched the Bonhomme Richard sink into the North Sea." [cited from numa.net]

 Serapis , a shipwreck in Treasure(16)

U.S.S. Weehawken - see NUMA Expeditions at NUMA.net

 A Coast Guard cutter in Flood Tide (30)

 Pitt contacts Weehawken Marine Products and speaks with Bob Conde, who identifies the serial number on a dive helmet Pitt saw while exploring the Cyclops shipwreck in Cyclops (44)

Okay, let's go for the obvious - Hickam Field in Pacific Vortex!

Dirk Pitt is a Major in the Air Force.

Clive Cussler was in the Air Force and stationed at Hickam in 1951.

The last time Captain Jimmy Flett and Dirk Pitt trod a deck and drank scotch together was back in 1988 on the Arvor III. They were searching for the Bonhomme Richard, but didn't find it. Valhalla Rising (49) t:

First Attempt
First Attempt, a NUMA research ship in The Mediterranean Caper and Raise the Titanic!.

First Attempt, a private yacht in Inca Gold.

Clive Cussler actually restored an outboard named First Attempt.

Mary Celeste t:

Mentioned in Pacific Vortex (6)

Mentioned in The Mediterranean Caper (13)

Mentioned in Fire Ice (24)

St. Julien Perlmutter's dining table is carved from the rudder of the famous ghost ship Mary Celeste. Trojan Odyssey (17)

A Cussler/NUMA expedition shipwreck discovery!

Jules Verne/Nautilus and the Hunley

Jules Verne is mentioned in Pacific Vortex (7)

Jules and the Nautilus are mentioned in Night Probe! (59)

St. Julien Perlmutter flies to Amiens, France and visits the home of Jules Verne.
Valhalla Rising (53)

Both the grave of Captain Cameron Amherst and the Nautilus are found. Valhalla Rising (57)

The American Robert Fulton (later renowned as the “inventor” of the steamboat) is commissioned by First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte to build an undersea craft capable of breaking the British blockade. Fulton christened his boat Nautilus (the same name chosen by Jules Verne 70 years later) and successfully demonstrated it on the Seine in 1800.

Bonaparte Nash, a character in Trojan Odyssey (44)

Napoleon Bonaparte is mentioned in Night Probe (71) - and there are references to Napoleon in his other books.

The American Civil War had stimulated more immediate interest in submersible combatants, particularly in the Confederacy, where raising the Union economic blockade was a primary objective. There, the most spectacular success was achieved by the hand-cranked submersible CSS Hunley, which in February 1864 sank the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor – the first-ever sinking of a warship by a submarine.

The Hunley is mentioned in Valhalla Rising (37, 49)

St. Julien Perlmutter has a model of the famed Conferderate submarine Hunley. Trojan Odyssey (17).

Clive Cussler and his NUMA Crew who found the Hunley, May 3, 1995, watched proudly as a team of archaeologists lifted the Civil War submarine August 8, 2000 four miles off the coast of Charleston, SC.

The Hunley sailed and fought several years before Jules Verne wrote of the Nautilus in 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. It has been speculated that there might be a connection...
c:

after seeing the aaron burr-alexander hamilton duel re-enacted on c-span's booktv i wonder if there's references to any hamilton or burr related items besides the u.s.s. weehawken?

None have leaped out at me in the Pitt adventures. Still reviewing the Austin adventures... and there is a reference to the Burr-Hamilton duel in the Austrin series - naturally in reference to dueling pistols. ;)

Monitor

The Monitor is mentioned in Pacific Vortex (13).

The Monitor is mentioned in Vixen 03 (30) - parent ship to Chenago.

Chenago, a shipwreck (A NUMA excavation project) Vixen 03 (30).

The Monitor is mentioned in Deep Six (3).

Clive Cussler discovered and excavated a sister ship to the Monitor .

CC found artifacts from the Monitor's famous nemesis, the Merrimack, a Confederate ironclad. The Merrimack sunk the Cumberland.

U.S.S. Merrimack

Merrimack, a Conferderate ironclad (a.k.a. Virginia in the South) is mentioned in Deep Six (3).
Cussler/NUMA expedition.

U.S.S. Cumberland

Cumberland, a shipwreck in Deep Six (3, 5)
Cussler/NUMA expedition.

Clive also had a whale boat named Second Attempt :)

w: I just ordered May Day. Has anyone read it or White Sand? I thought I had read everything until I can across May Day. Is Clive on any expeditions now? Is he writing any new books? cf:

May Day is the overseas title of The Med Caper ;)

And I believe right now he is in the North Sea (my back door j: ) searching for the Bonhomme Richard!

Stonewall Jackson

A steamboat in Deep Six (68, 72)

A Cussler/NUMA expedition.

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Cyclops

A shipwreck in Cyclops (19).

Mentioned in Treasure (5).

A Cussler/NUMA expedition.

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R.M.S. Carpathia

Carpathia, a Cussler/NUMA expedition. b:
Carpathia is mentioned in Raise the Titanic! (30, 44) and Shock Wave (36)

Carpathia, the ship that rescued 705 survivors from the Titanic. t:

Titanic, a shipwreck in Raise the Titanic! (36, 47, 48, 51, 52, 54, 74)
Titanic is mentioned in Night Probe! (27), Treasure (5), Shock Wave (36), Atlantis Found (9), Valhalla Rising (31), Fire Ice (19), White Death (37)

t:

If the Hunley was an inspiration for the Nautilus, submarine technology developed quickly in the mind of Jules Verne.

H.M.S. Pathfinder

A Bougainville acquisition in Deep Six (72-73)

Cussler/NUMA expedition

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C.S.S. Alabama

Alabama, a battleship sunk by the Kearsarge.

Alabama is mentioned in Vixen 03 (40), Sahara (The Gauntlet), and
Valhalla Rising (Prologue, 37)

Kearsarge, a shipwreck in Valhalla Rising (Prologue, 37)

Alabama, a Cussler/NUMA expedition.

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Golf Course - place theme

Clive Cussler purchased a track home on a municipal golf course in Arvada.
CC and DP Revealed p.54

The author photo of Clive Cussler for Iceberg. Clive Cussler is wearing a wet suit standing in a pond on a golf course. The photo was taken by a neighbor [Kate Lentz].

CC and DP Revealed p.66

The President is on a putting green behind the White House.
Vixen 03 (26)

Foss Gly chooses a golf course to stage his assassination attempt on Charles Sarveau. Night Probe! (5)

"Hello, Oscar, how's the golf game?"
"Sad shape," answered Lucas. "I haven't played in almost two weeks."
Deep Six (6)

The President plays golf at the Congressional Country Club.
Cyclops (2, 3)


"Looks like a good day for golf, Mr. President."
"My game couldn't get worse if we were standing in snow," the President said, smiling.
Cyclops (2)

'Joe' explains that the box is not really a bomb, but a gift - a box of golf balls.
Cyclops (3)

Winthrop Manor Nursing Home has a nine-hole golf course.
Cyclops (43)

Sam Trinity greets the helicopter holding a two iron Bob Hope-style.

"Where do you play golf around here?"
"Just down the road in Rio Grande City," Trinity replied genially.
Treasure (66)

Sam Trinity goes on a playing tour of the world's top one hundred golf courses.
Treasure (78)

Qin Shang's Orion Retreat has a nine-hole golf course.
Flood Tide (2, 3, 7)

Kasumigaseki Golf Club - Ambassador Edward Hamilton is shot.
Black Wind (4)

Jackson Park Golf Course is mentioned.
Black Wind (5)

Calliope: the small fast attack craft Pitt, Gunn, and Giordino have to scuttle in the Niger River in Sahara.

HMS Calliope: Last British 'C Class' armoured cruiser built around the turn of the century. Coincidentally, that class of cruisers was a 19th century equivelent of Cussler's invention, sleek, fast, armoured, and packing a lot of firepower.