Sailors on the rocks : famous Royal Navy shipwrecks / Peter C. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Peter C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Royal Navy--History.

Great Britain.

Great Britain. Royal Navy--Lists of vessels.

Warships--Great Britain--History.

Warships.

Shipwrecks--Great Britain.

Shipwrecks.

Great Britain--History, Naval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Maritime, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For three hundred years or more the Royal Navy really did Rule the Waves, in the sense that during the numerous wars with our overseas enemies, British fleets and individual ships more often than not emerged victorious from combat. One French Admiral wa

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction and Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Wrecked off Rame; Chapter 2: Destroyed by Plague - The Winchester, 24 September 1695; Chapter 3: The Great Storm - The Mary, Mortar, Northumberland, Restoration & Stirling Castle; Chapter 4: A Navigational Inexactitude; Chapter 5: A Melancholy Echo; Chapter 6: Unlucky Horseshoe; Chapter 7: The Birkenhead Drill; Chapter 8: Violating Tapu; Photo Gallery; Chapter 9: Ashore on Lundy; Chapter 10: 'An Unreliable Fix'; Chapter 11: Sole Survivor; Chapter 12: The Wrecking of Raleigh; Chapter 13: Short-cut to Nowhere

Chapter 14: On No Account Leave the Ship!Chapter 15: Who has the Helm?; Further Selected Reading on Royal Navy Shipwrecks

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 22, 2016).

ISBN:

9781473882485

1473882486