Sailors on the Rocks: Famous Royal Navy Shipwrecks
Language: English
Published by Pen and Sword Books Ltd., South Yorkshire, 1988
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Peninsula Books, Traverse City, MI, U.S.A.Peninsula Books
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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Contains an index and a bibliography in the rear. A nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings. Dust jacket in similarly nice condition with no chips, tears, or markings.; B&W Illustrations; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; 280 pages.
Seller Inventory # 19659
- Title
- Sailors on the Rocks: Famous Royal Navy Shipwrecks
- Author
- Smith, Peter C.
- Publisher
- Pen and Sword Books Ltd., South Yorkshire
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1783400625
- ISBN 13
- 9781783400621
This book highlights a sample array of disasters, occurring when men-of-war faced the ultimate test of the elements and lost. Among such tragedies are the wrecking of the Coronation in 1691, the destruction of the Winchester in 1695 and the great storm of 1703, along with a host of shipwrecks on far-flung shores from New Zealand to Nova Scotia, and from Florida to South Africa. Some of the featured stories are already famous, like that of the Birkenhead. Others are lesser-known, like the sister cruisers Raleigh and Effingham, separated by many years. More recently, steam power replaced the uncertainties of sail, but even so losses continued, from little destroyers in both world wars (Narborough, Opal and Sturdy among them) through great battleships like Montagu. Even modern warships equipped with every modern navigational device come to grief; witness the strange affair of the frigate Nottingham, or the humiliating grounding of the nuclear 'wonder' submarine Astute on Skye in 2010.
This unique book presents a fascinating insight into the malevolent power of the sea and storms over man’s creation and dominion, chronicling some of the most dramatic shipwrecks ever to have occurred in our seas.
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