Hogged
E.S. Turner, 22 January 1998
Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras
by Terence Grocott.
Chatham, 430 pp., £30, November 1997,1 86176 030 2 Show More
by Terence Grocott.
Chatham, 430 pp., £30, November 1997,
“... on board. Discord and dissension; the devil let loose. This list is reproduced as an appendix to Terence Grocott’s meticulous catalogue of doom, though without any hint as to how exactly captains’ wives and other women contributed to maritime disasters. Did they spread a fatal, deadening sobriety or an excess of devil? This book suggests some ... ”
