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Shipwrecks Of The Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras

Art.nr: X12268
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This book is a chronicle of shipping disasters during the last great war of the age of sail, based almost exclusively on the reporting of the time. Listed are some fifteen hundred ships, vessels naval and mercantile, of many nations whose tribulations were covered in the national and local newspapers as well as the specialist press like the Naval Chronicle.

These reports run the whole gamut of maritime tragedies - the bizarre, curious and quirky, as well as the familiar - and in all their inconsequential detail. Alongside stories of daring rescues and astounding ordeals will be found strange facts, like the fate of the oldest Freemason in Britain; unlikely events such as the flogging round the fleet which hurt the spectators more than the punished; examples of the casual cruelty of the age, like the seamen marooned on buoys in the depth of winter by an irate press gang; and many a horrifying tale of hardship and death, perhaps none more so than that of the captain trapped on a beach beneath the cargo of his wrecked ship awaiting inevitable slow death as the tide came in. Through the medium of the reporting of the time, what is here presented is a truly contemporary perspective on events, in itself a fascinating revelation of the mores and attitudes of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Given the sheer number of craft lost at sea, it cannot be entirely exhaustive, but no other book contains so much non-technical information on the maritime disasters of the period 1793-1815, so Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary cV Napoleonic Eras is certain to become the standard work.

430 Pages - 24 x 16 cm - Hardback

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