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Cover Page
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Image Credits
Introduction
1. Sea monster depiction (Conrad Gessner, after Olaus Magnus, 1539)
2. Rosary from Mary Rose (1545)
3. Armada medal (Armada wrecks, 1588)
4. Coat of arms of Bermuda (Sea Venture, 1609)
5. Cannon from Trial (1622)
6. Hull timbers of Sparrow-Hawk (1626)
7. Pocket sundial from the warship London (1665)
8. North Foreland lighthouse (built 1691)
9. Giant clam collected by William Dampier (Roebuck, 1701)
10. Storm clouds over the sea (Great Storm, 1703)
11. Portrait of Sir Cloudesley Shovell (Scilly Naval Disaster, 1707)
12. Pirate flag ‘Jolly Roger’ (eighteenth-century Caribbean pirates)
13. First edition of Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe, 1719)
14. Satellite image of Wager Island, Chile (HMS Wager, 1741)
15. Epic poem The Shipwreck by William Falconer (1762)
16. Château de Fougères (HMS Arethusa, 1779)
17. Snuff-box made from timbers of HMS Royal George (1782)
18. Bowl and lid from Palau (Antelope, 1783)
19. Lifeboat design plans (Lionel Lukin, 1785)
20. Mirror (Halsewell, 1786)
21. Iceberg (Lady Hobart, 1803)
22. Flint for a musket (Earl of Abergavenny, 1805)
23. East India Company token (Admiral Gardner, 1809)
24. Message in a bottle (Kent, 1825)
25. RNLI gold medal (instituted 1824)
26. Diving helmet design (invented 1828)
27. Wreckers, a painting by J. M. W. Turner (1833)
28. Grace Darling’s boat (SS Forfarshire, 1838)
29. Membership ticket for the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners’ Royal Benevolent Society (1839)
30. An officer’s epaulettes (HMS Erebus, c.1848)
31. Lisle family gravestone (pilot ship, 1848)
32. Handwritten account of two storms at sea (Sutlej, 1848)
33. Commemorative brass plaque (RMS Amazon, 1851)
34. Pocketwatch belonging to Ralph Shelton Bond (HMS Birkenhead, 1852)
35. Ship’s anchor (Eglinton, 1852)
36. Cork life jacket (invented 1854)
37. Lifebuoy (widely adopted 1855)
38. Gold nugget (Royal Charter, 1859)
39. Wreck chart for the British Isles (Board of Trade, 1859)
40. Ceramic commemorative mug (SS London, 1866)
41. Autograph of John King (SS London and others)
42. Transported convict Thomas Berwick (Severn, 1866)
43. Fragment of HMS Captain ’s bowsprit (1870)
44. Sheet music and lyrics (Northfleet, 1873)
45. Hand-drawn map of the coast of Chile (SS Tacna, 1874)
46. Sketch of survivors (Cospatrick, 1874)
47. Plimsoll line (‘coffin ships’, 1876)
48. Anchor of HMS Eurydice (1878)
49. A silver sixpence (Princess Alice, 1878)
50. A captain’s trunk (SS Jeddah, 1880)
51. Photo of Abraham Hart Youngs (heroic coastguard, 1881)
52. Ship portrait as carte de visite (Magdala, 1882)
53. Memorial to Richard Parker (Mignonette, 1884)
54. First innings cricket scores (SS Bokhara, 1892)
55. Advert for a lecture (HMS Victoria, 1893)
56. Chalice (SS Drummond Castle, 1896)
57. Board of Trade wreck report (SS Mohegan, 1898)
58. Stained glass window (SS Stella, 1899)
59. Maritime distress signals (‘CQD’ emergency code introduced in 1904)
60. Obelisk for submariners (HMS A1 submarine, 1904)
61. Photo of survivors (SS Hilda, 1905)
62. Postcard of half a ship (SS Suevic, 1907)
63. Former White Star Line offices, Southampton (RMS Titanic, 1912)
64. Press photo of Arthur Rostron and Molly Brown (RMS Titanic, 1912)
65. A ship ablaze (SS Volturno, 1913)
66. Newspaper front page announcing the death of Laurence Irving (RMS Empress of Ireland, 1914)
67. German publicity image of U-boat U-9 crew (HMS Crecy, Hogue and Aboukir, 1914)
68. Ship’s propeller (RMS Lusitania, 1915)
69. The ‘Lusitania medal’ (RMS Lusitania, 1915)
70. A badge for a lost son (HMS Black Prince, 1916)
71. In memoriam card for Lord Kitchener (HMS Hampshire, 1916)
72. Souvenir of a captured enemy vessel (U-boat UC-5, 1916)
73. Aerial photo of a sinking hospital ship (HMHS Gloucester Castle)
74. Image of officers and cadets before a final voyage (Dee, 1917)
75. Reconnaissance photo of three ships wrecked at Zeebrugge (HMS Intrepid, Iphigenia and Thetis, 1918)
76. Merchant Navy torpedo cuff badge (1918)
77. Postcards of scuttled German warships at Scapa Flow (1919)
78. Cecil Foster’s best-selling book (SS Trevessa, 1923)
79. Photo on the deck as a ship is sinking (SS Vestris, 1928)
80. Unmarked grave of Arthur John Priest (died 1937)
81. Souvenir badge for passengers (TSS Athenia, 1939)
82. Lifeboat from SS Anglo-Saxon (1940)
83. Memorial plaque on Merseyside (Lancastria, 1940)
84. Book of remembrance (HMS Hood, 1941)
85. Doris Hawkins’ remarkable account (RMS Laconia, 1942)
86. Model of a Japanese bomber (HMS Dorsetshire and Cornwall, 1942)
87. Sailor’s cap tally (HMS Curacoa, 1942)
88. HMS Belfast (sinking of Scharnhorst, 1943)
89. MRC War Memorandum No. 8 (medical advice on surviving shipwrecks)
90. A ship’s log on sailcloth (SS Lulworth Hill, 1943)
91. Snapshots of ships aground (SS Leicester, 1948)
92. Sailors’ Church, Liverpool (rebuilt 1952)
93. Tower Hill Memorial (completed 1955)
94. A dead seabird (oil tanker Torrey Canyon, 1967)
95. Memorial sculpture and gardens (MV Derbyshire, 1980)
96. A Falkland Islands memorial (HMS Sheffield, 1982)
97. Newspaper headlines of a ferry disaster (Herald of Free Enterprise, 1987)
98. Two London bridges (Marchioness, 1991)
99. RNLI sculpture (lifeboatmen who died in service, 2009)
100. Two Titanic museums (Titanic Belfast and Sea City, Southampton, 2012)
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