Hogged

E.S. Turner

  • Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras by Terence Grocott
    Chatham, 430 pp, £30.00, November 1997, ISBN 1 86176 030 2

Old-time shipwrecks are a richer, quirkier subject than most of us imagine. In 1841 the Nautical Magazine listed 50 ‘Causes of the loss of ships at sea, by wreck or otherwise’. In addition to ‘Mistaking of headlands’, ‘Driving on a lee shore’, ‘Sleeping on watch’, ‘Shifting of cargo’ and so on, the list includes:

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Vol. 20 No. 2 · 22 January 1998 » E.S. Turner » Hogged (print version)
Pages 30-31 | 2695 words