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Barbarian cruelty; or, an accurate and impartial narrative of the unparallel'd sufferings and almost incredible hardships of the British captives, belonging to the Inspector privateer, Capt. Richard Veale, Commander, During Their Slavery under the arbitrary and despotic Government of Muley Abdallah, Emperor of Fez and Morocco, from January 1745-6, to their happy Ransom and Deliverance from their painful Captivities, compleated in December 1750, by the Bounty and Benevolence of his present Majesty King George.
Troughton, Thomas.Date: 1751- Pictures
A female figure resting on an anchor with a bird perched on her hand; representing hope. Etching by M. Küssell, late 17th century, after J.W. Baur.
Baur, Johann Wilhelm, 1607-1642.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 27270i- Books
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Ebenezer; or, a monument of thankfulness. Being a true account of a late miraculous preservation of nine men in a small boat which was inclosed within Islands of Ice about Seventy Leagues from Land, and continuing in Distress Twenty eight Days. Drawn up by Allen Geare, who was a Principal Sharer both in the Misery and the Mercy.
Geare, Allen.Date: 1708- Pictures
Grace Darling participating in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838 off the Farne Islands, coast of Northumberland. Photograph after W.B. Scott.
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890.Date: [19--?]Reference: 3163095i- Books
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A journal of the travels and sufferings of Daniel Saunders, Jun. A mariner on board the ship Commerce, of Boston, Samuel Johnson, commander, which was cast away near Cape Morebet, on the coast of Arabia, July 10, 1792. Published according to act of Congress.
Saunders, Daniel.Date: 1794- Ephemera
Lifebuoy soap : rescue yourself and others from contagion and disease by using Lifebuoy Royal Disinfectant Soap... / Lever Brothers Ltd.
Lever Brothers Ltd.Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]- Pictures
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Saint Paul shipwrecked on Malta. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1791, after B. West.
West, Benjamin, 1738-1820.Date: 1 January 1791Reference: 23504i- Books
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Narrative of a shipwreck on the island of Cape Breton, in a voyage from Quebec 1780. By S. W. Prenties, Ensign of the 84th Regiment of Foot.
Prenties, Samuel Waller.Date: Printed in the Year 1782- Books
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Barbarian cruelty; or, an accurate and impartial narrative of the unparallelled sufferings and almost incredible hardships of the British captives, belonging to the Inspector privateer, Capt. Rd. Veale, during their slavery under Muley Abdallah, Emperor of Fez and Morocco, from Jan. 1745-6, to their happy Deliverance, by the Bounty of King George II. administred by William Latton, Esq. Ambassador to Morocco, in December, 1750. Originally published by T. Troughton, of London; now republished by Timothy Le Beau, of Exeter, his fellow-sufferer, in that dreadful Captivity.
Troughton, Thomas.Date: 1787- Pictures
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A sunken ship representing German commerce; a bearded skeleton next to it. Drawing by A.G. Racey, 191-.
Racey, A. G. (Arthur George), 1870-1941.Date: 1910-1919Reference: 571973i- Books
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The narrative of Captain David Woodard and four seamen: who lost their ship while in a boat at sea, and surrendered themselves up to the Malays in the island of Celebes ; containing an interesting account of their sufferings ... ; also an account of the manners and customs of the country ... ; Together with an introduction, and an appendix. Containing narratives of various escapes from shipwrecks ... holding out a valuable seaman's guide ... / [Ed. by W. Vaughan].
Woodard, D. N. (David N.)Date: 1805- Books
Death raft : the human drama of the Medusa shipwreck / Alexander McKee.
McKee, Alexander, 1918-1992.Date: 1975- Books
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A narrative of the loss of the Catharine, Venus, and Piedmont transports, and the Thomas, Golden Grove, and Æolus merchant ships, near Weymouth, on Wednesday the 18th of November last. Drawn up from information taken on the spot, by Charlotte Smith, and published for the benefit of an unfortunate survivor from one of the wrecks, and her infant child.
Smith, Charlotte Turner, 1749-1806.Date: 1796- Pictures
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A child being rescued from a shipwreck, two women are in the sea about to be rescued by a boat. Stipple engraving by A. Roffe after F.R. Roffe after W. Wyon.
Wyon, William, 1795-1851.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 17934i- Books
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Narrative of the wreck of the 'Favorite' on the Island of Desolation [Kerguelen Island]: detailing the adventures, sufferings, and privations of John Nunn; an historical account of the island, and its whale and seal fisheries ... / Edited by W.B. Clarke, M.D.
Nunn, John, 1955-Date: 1850- Pictures
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A shipwrecked woman holds on to the remains of a ship-mast waving for help in the stormy sea. Engraving by C. Heath after H. Warren.
Warren, Henry, 1794-1879.Date: 1 October 1847Reference: 43718i- Books
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Narrative of the shipwreck of the Juno, on the coast of Aracan, and of the singular preservation of fourteen of her company on the wreck, without food, during a period of twenty-three days: in a letter to his father, the Rev. Thomas Mackay, Minister of Lairg, Sutherlandshire, by William Mackay, late second officer of the ship.
Mackay, William, 1771-1804.Date: 1798- Books
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An essay on the preservation of shipwrecked mariners, in answer to the prize-questions proposed by the Royal Humane Society : "1. What are the best means of preserving mariners from shipwreck?-2. Of keeping the vessel afloat?-3. Of giving assistance to the crew, when boats dare not venture out to their aid?" / by A. Fothergill, M.D. F.R.S. member of the Royal College of Physicians, Lond. honorary member of Medical and Phil. Societies of Lond. Edinb. Paris, Manchest. Philadel. &c.
Fothergill, A. (Anthony), 1732?-1813.Date: 1799- Pictures
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A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.
Lindau, Dietrich Wilhelm, 1799-1862.Date: 1835Reference: 38511i- Pictures
A wrecker salvaging the remains of a shipwreck off the Shetland Isles. Steel engraving by W. Miller after W. Collins.
Collins, William, 1788-1847.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 590007i- Books
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God's protecting providence, man's surest help and defence, in times of greatest difficulty, and most eminent danger: evidenced in the remarkable deliverance of Robert Barrow, with divers other persons, from ... the inhuman canibals [sic] of Florida. Faithfully related by one of the persons concern'd therein, Jonathan Dickenson.
Dickinson, Jonathan, 1663-1722.Date: 1720- Books
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Histoire des naufrages, ou recueil des relations les plus intéressantes des naufrages, hivernemens, délaissemens, incendies, famines, et autres événemens funestes sur mer, qui ont été publiées depuis le quinzième siècle jusqu'à-présent / Par M.D. ... A. ... [i.e. J.L.H.S. Deperthes].
Deperthes, Jean-Louis-Hubert-Simon, 1730-1792.Date: 1788-1789- Books
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An account of the Pelew Islands, situated in the great South Sea. Composed from the journals of Capt. Henry Wilson, and his officers; who, in August, 1783, were there ship-wrecked in the Antelope packet. [Two lines from Keate]
Keate, George, 1729-1797.Date: 1796- Books
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Barbarian cruelty; or a narrative of the sufferings of British captives belonging to the Inspector privateer during their slavery under Muley Abdallah, Emperor of Fez and Morocco; from January, 1746, to their Deliverance in December, 1750. With an Historical Account of the Country, from the Earliest Periods. Originally published by Thomas Troughton, now republished by Timothy L Beau. To which is subjoined, a relation of the hardships endured by the crew of the Litchfield Man of War, shipwrecked on the Coast of Barbary in the Year 1758.
Troughton, Thomas.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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A narrative of an extraordinary escape out of the hands of the Indians, in the Gulph of St. Lawrence; interspersed with a description of the coast, and Remarks on the Customs and Manners of the Savages there: also, a providential escape after a shipwreck, in coming from the Island St. John, in said Gulph; with an Account of the Fisheries round that Island. likewise, a plan for reconciling the differences between Great Britain and her colonies. By Gamaliel Smethurst, Late Member of the Assembly for the County of Cumberland, in the Province of Nova-Scotia, Comptroller of his Majesty's Customs for said Province, Deputy-Surveyor of the Woods, &c.
Smethurst, Gamaliel.Date: M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]