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The surprizing yet real and true voyages and adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud. A French sea-captain. To which is added, The shipwreck. A sentimental and descriptive poem, in three cantos. By William Falconer, an English sailor. [Two lines of verse]
Dubois-Fontanelle, Jean Gaspard, 1737-1812.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Memorable accidents and unheard-of transactions: containing an account of several strange events; as, the deposing of tyrants, lamentable shipwrecks, dismal misfortunes, strategems of war, perilous adventures, happy deliverances, with other remarkable occurrences and selec historical events, which have happened in several countries in the last age. Translated from the French, and published in English by R.B.
Léonard, T.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
An appeal to the British nation, on the humanity and policy of forming a national institution, for the preservation of lives and property from shipwreck. / By Sir William Hillary.
Hillary, William, 1771-1847.Date: 1823- Books
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An authentic narrative of the loss of the Doddington Indiaman, and of the adventures of those on board who survived the shipwreck; from the journal of one of the surviving officers.
Webb, William, mate of the Doddington East Indiaman.Date: [1756?]- Books
An appeal to the British nation, on the humanity and policy of forming a national institution for the preservation of lives and property from shipwreck / By Sir William Hillary.
Hillary, William, 1771-1847.Date: 1823- Books
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Cheap Repository. Wonderful escape from shipwreck. An account of the loss of His Majesty's ship Centaur.
Inglefield, John Nicholson, 1748-1828.Date: [1795?]- Books
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Cheap Repository. Wonderful escape from shipwreck. An account of the loss of His Majesty's ship Centaur.
Inglefield, John Nicholson, 1748-1828.Date: [1795?]- 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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Memorable accidents, and unheard of transactions, containing an account of several strange events: as the disposing of tyrants, lamentable shipwrecks, Dismal Misfortunes, Stratagems of War, Perilous Adventures, Happy Deliverances, with other remarkable occurrences, and Select Historical Events, which have happened in several Countries in this last Age. Translated from the French, printed at Brussels in 1691, and Dedicated to His present Majesty William King of England, &c. Published in English by R. B.
Léonard, T.Date: 1733- Books
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Narrative of the shipwreck of the Nottingham galley, &c. Publish'e in 1711. Revis'd, and re-printed with additions in 1727, by John Deane, commander.
Dean, John, 1679-1761.Date: 1727]- Books
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A narrative of the shipwreck of the Nottingham Galley, &c. Publish'd in 1711. Revis'd, and re-printed with additions in 1726, by John Deane, Commander.
Dean, John, 1679-1761.Date: 1726]- 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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Travels in North America, by M. Crespel. With a narrative of his Shipwreck, and extraordinary hardships and suffering on the Island of Anticosti; and an Account of that Island, and of the Shipwreck of his Majesty's Ship Active, and others.
Crespel, Emmanuel.Date: 1797- Books
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An appeal to the British nation, on the humanity and policy of forming a national institution, for the preservation of lives and property from shipwreck / by Sir William Hillary.
Hillary, William, 1771-1847.Date: 1823- Books
A guide to the preservation of life at sea after shipwreck / Medical Research Council, Committee on the Care of Shipwrecked Personnel.
Date: 1943- Books
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Narrative of the shipwreck of the Antelope East-India Pacquet, on the Pelew Islands, situated on the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean; in August, 1783.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
An account of the empire of Marocco, and the districts of Suse and Tafilelt; compiled from miscellaneous observations made during a long residence in, and various journies through, these countries. To which is added an account of shipwrecks on the Western Coast of Africa, and an interesting account of Timbuctoo, the great emporium of Central Africa ... / By James Grey Jackson, esq. Illustrated with correct maps and various engravings.
Jackson, James Grey.Date: 1814- 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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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 Lairc, Sutherlandshire, by William Mackay, late second officer of the ship.
Mackay, William, 1771-1804.Date: 1798- 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- 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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The shipwreck of the Antelope East-India packet, H. Wilson, Esq. Commander, on the Pelew Islands, situate in the west part of the Pacific Ocean; in August, 1783. Containing the subsequent adventures of the crew with a singular race of people, hitherto unknown to Europeans, with interesting particulars of Lee Boo, second son of the Pelew king, to the time of his death at Captain Wilson's house at Rotherhithe. By one of the infortunate officers.
One of the unfortunate officers.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Pictures
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An episode in Juvenal's satire XII: in thanks for the escape of their mutual friend Catullus from a shipwreck, Juvenal shows to Corvinus a votive painting depicting Catullus's survival, while putti prepare to sacrifice animals as thank-offerings to the gods. Etching by W. Hollar after R. Streater.
Streater, Robert, 1624-1680.Date: [1660]Reference: 38992i- 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- Books
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God's wonders in the great deep: or, A narrative of the shipwreck of the brigantine Alida and Catharine, Joseph Bailey, master, on the 27th of December, 1749. Bound from New York for Antigua. Wherein, the wonderful mercy of the Divine Providence is display'd, in the preservation of the said master, with all his men, from the time of the said vessel's over-setting, to the time of their being taken up by a vessel bound from Boston to Surranam, on the 3d of January following; all which time, being seven nights, they were in the most imminent danger and distress. Written by the master himself.
Bailey, Joseph.Date: [1750]