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A History of Shipwrecks and Disasters at sea, C.1833

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A History of Shipwrecks, and Disasters at sea, from the most authentic Sources (2 Volume set on CD)

 

 

Author: Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870

Publisher: Whittaker, Treacher, & co (1833)

 

Vol. I:  The Northern and Polar Seas, 343 pp

Vol. 2: Atlantic and Southern Seas, 316 pp

 

14 B/W illustrated plates & B/W engraved title pages

 

 

Volume 1

 

CHAPTER I.

Introductory Remarks Scantiness of detail in most of the older Narratives of Shipwrecks, as in the account of the Loss of the Nobility of East Friesland, in 900, and Prince William, son of Henry I., 1120 Account of the Shipwreck'of Nicolo Zeno, 1380, and that of Pietro Qui- rino, 1431.

 

CHAPTER II.

The broilers Cortereals, 1500; sufferings of the crews of the Minion and Trinity from famine, 1536; Sir Hugh Willotghby frozen to death, 1553 ; Loss of Sir Humphry Gilbert, with the Delight and Squirrel, 1583 ; Barentz, Heenukirk, and De Veer's shipwreck in Nova Zembla, 1595; lite of John Knight, 1606.

 

CHAPTER III.

Hudson al andoned by his crew, and lost, 1610 Munk's dis-astrous voyage, 1619.

 

CHAPTER IV.

Peiham's Narrative of the Eight Searaen of the Salutation, 1630.

 

CHAPTER V.

Captain Jai ics's Narrative of his Sufferings in 1631.

 

CHAPTER VI.

Fate of seven Dutch seamen in Spitzbergen and Mayen's Island, 1633, 1634 Loss of a Dutch Whaler, 1639 of forty-one Englishmen on the ice, 1646.

 

CHAPTER VII.

Dr. Johnson's deliverance, 1648.

 

CHAPTER VIII.

Loss of Dutch Whalers The Speedwell, 1678 Allen Geare's Narrative, 1706.

 

CHAPTER IX.

Shipwreck of the Nottingham Galley on Boon Island, 1710 Loss of Knight and Barlow, on Marble Island, 1719.

 

CHAPTER X.

Behring's shipwreck and death, 1741 Four Russian sailors left four years in Spitzbergen, 1743 Loss of a Russian crew on the Aleutian Islands, 1758.

 

CHAPTER XI.

Loss of the St. Lawrence, 1780.

 

CHAPTER XI.

The Loss of the Lady Hobart, 1808. Narrative of Captain Fellowes.

 

 

Volume 2

 

CHAPTER I.

The Shipwreck of the Toby of London on the Barbary coast, 1593 Destruction of the New Horn by fire, 161S.

 

CHAPTER II.

Misfortunes of Captain Norwood, 1649.

 

CHAPTER III.

The Shipwreck of a Spanish vessel, in 16 3, on the coast of America . . . . 7.

 

CHAPTER IV.

Wreck of the Speedwell, 1719, at Juan Fernandez Burning of the Prince, 1752.

 

CHAPTER V.

Wreck of the Doddington, 1/55 Of theUtile, 1761 Famine in the Peggy, 1765.

 

CHAPTER VI.

Peter Viand's Shipwreck, 1766 Madame Dunoyer's abandon-ment in an open boat by pirates, 1766.

 

CHAPTER VII.

The Grosvenor East Indiaman, 1782.

 

CHAPTER VIII.

Loss of the Centaur, 1782

 

CHAPTER IX.

Sufferings of David Woodward and five Seamen, 1/93 Loss of the Button, 1796 Of the Nautilus, 1807.

 

CHAPTER X.

Loss of the American Ship Commerce, 1815.

 



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