Sailors on the Rocks
Famous Royal Navy Shipwrecks
Published on 31. January 2016
240 pages
978-1-4738-8248-5 (ISBN)
Description
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
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Stephen C. Smith | Peter C. Smith
Sailors on the Rocks
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12/2015
Pen & Sword Aviation
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Peter C. Smith is well-known to aviation and maritime history readers. He has written over 67 previously published books. Amongst these are Skua, Detroyer Leader, Into the Minefields and Naval Warfare in the English Channel 1939-1945, all published by Pen & Sword.
Content
- Intro
- 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
