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A discourse, occasioned by the loss of a number of vessels, with their mariners, belonging to the town of Marblehead; and delivered December 17, 1769, being a day appointed for a collection for the relief of those who were made widows and fatherless, by the affecting Providence. By William Whitwell, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in said town.
Whitwell, William, 1737-1781.Date: 1770- Books
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An account of the shipwreck and captivity of M. de Brisson; containing a description of the deserts of Africa, from Senegal to Morocco. Translated from the French.
Brisson, Pierre-Raymond de, 1745-1820?.Date: 1789
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Saint Paul shipwrecked on Malta. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1791, after B. West.
West, Benjamin, 1738-1820Date: 1 January 1791Reference: 23963i
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Two women rescuing a man from the sea off the coast of Swansea. Wood engraving by W.H., 1883, after T.R.
R., T., active 1878.Date: 10 February 1883Reference: 17940i- Books
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A voyage to the South Seas, in the years 1740-1. Containing a faithful narrative of the loss of His Majesty's Ship the the [sic] Wager on a desolate island in the latitude 47 south, longitude 81:40 west ... Interspersed with many entertaining and curious observations, no taken notice of by Sir John Narborough, or any other journalist, with many things not published in the first edition. By John Bulkeley and John Cummins, late gunner and carpenter of the Wager.
Bulkeley, John.Date: 1757. (Price 10s)- Books
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The narrative of the Honourable John Byron: (commodore in a late expedition round the world.) Containing an account of the great distresses suffered by himself and his companions on the coasts of Patagonia, From the Year 1740, till their Arrival in England, 1746. With a description of St. Jago de Chili, And the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants. Also a relation of the loss of the Wager man of war, One of Admiral Anson's Squadron. Written by himself.
Byron, John, 1723-1786.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]
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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
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Ship-wreck near Caiphas, with Mount Carmel in the distance. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.
Roberts, David, 1796-1864Date: [1843]Reference: 36890iPart of: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia
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The shipwreck, or Paul and Virginia / From the French of M. De Saint Pierre.
Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 1737-1814.Date: 1808- Books
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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]- Pictures
A storm at sea: a large ship dangerously approaching a rocky shore with a lighthouse, being watched by fishermen on the shore. Etching by W. Woollett, 1768, after R. Wright, 1764.
Wright, Richard, approximately 1720-approximately 1775.Date: 1768Reference: 2133449i- 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, 1771-1847Date: 1823
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A ship caught in a storm; three people in a lifeboat in the foreground. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1820.
Date: 1820Reference: 573792i- 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
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 ... account of their sufferings ... and their escape from the Malays, after a captivity of two years and a half: also an account of the manners and customs of the country, and a description of the harbours and coast, &c. Together with an introduction, and an appendix, containing narratives of various escapes from shipwrecks ... / [edited by William Vaughan].
Woodard, D. N. (David N.)Date: 1804- Books
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 ... / In a letter to his father, the Rev. Thomas Mackay ... By William Mackay.
Mackay, WilliamDate: 1798- Books
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A correct statement of the grand cricket-match, played at Worksop, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the 3d, 4th, and 5th of November 1800, by eleven members of the Nottingham Club, against twenty-two members of the Sheffield Club, for two hundred guineas.
Date: [1800]- Books
The tragic history of the sea, 1589-1622 : narratives of the shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen São Thomé (1589), Santo Alberto (1593), São João Baptista (1622); and the journeys of the survivors in South East Africa / edited from the original Portuguese, by C.R. Boxer.
Date: 1959
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An address to the British public : with suggestions for the recovering property from sunken vessels; also, for the means for rescuing the lives of sailors from stranded vessels; and for the prevention of shipwreck; likewise, on the extinction and prevention of destructive fires; and for rescuing persons from houses enveloped in flames: and for saving from drowning persons who break through the ice. With a description and representation of apparatus used for those purposes, and instructions for their application / By G.W. Manby.
Manby, George William, 1765-1854Date: 1838- Books
Storm warriors : or, Life-boat work on the Goodwin Sands / by the Rev. John Gilmore.
Gilmore, JohnDate: 1875
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Saint Paul: he is shipwrecked on Malta. Engraving, 1794, by B.T. Pouncy after P.J. Loutherbourg.
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812Date: March 1st 1794Reference: 6756i- Pictures
Telemachus and Mentor being shipwrecked on Ogygia, where they are seen by Calypso. Engraving by C. Grignion, 1774, after F. de La Mothe-Fénelon.
Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe- 1651-1715Date: August 1 1774Reference: 3020954i- Books
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A narrative of the extraordinary adventures, and sufferings by shipwreck & imprisonment, of Donald Campbell, Esq. of Barbreck: with the singular humours of his Tartar guide, Hasan Artaz; comprising the occurrences of four years and five days, in an overland journey to India. In a series of letters to his son. [Three lines from Young]
Campbell, Donald, 1751-1804.Date: 1798- 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]- Books
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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