PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN WOODWARD AND FIVE SEAMEN IN THE ISLAND OF CELEBES.
AN OCCURRENCE AT SEA.
ACCOUNT OF THE LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP PHOENIX.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE WHALE FISHERY WITH ANECDOTES OF THE DANGERS ATTENDING IT.
LOSS OF THE BRIG TYRREL.
THE LOSS OF THE PEGGY.
LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP LITCHFIELD.
WRECK OF THE ROTHSAY CASTLE STEAMER.
SHIPWRECK OF THE FRENCH SHIP DROITS DE L'HOMME.
THE LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP, QUEEN CHARLOTTE.
A SCENE ON THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.
SHIPWRECK OF THE FRENCH FRIGATE MEDUSA.
THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE.
LOSS OF THE AENEAS TRANSPORT.
THE ABSENT SHIP.
LOSS OF THE HALSEWELL.
AN ACCOUNT OF FOUR RUSSIAN SAILORS, ABANDONED ON THE ISLAND OF EAST SPITZBERGEN.
LOSS OF THE AMPHITRITE CONVICT SHIP.
THE MUTINEERS, A TALE OF THE SEA.
FATE OF SEVEN SAILORS, WHO WERE LEFT ON THE ISLAND OF ST. MAURICE.
SEAMEN WINTERING IN SPITZBERGEN.
A MAN OVERBOARD.
AN ESCAPE THROUGH THE CABIN-WINDOWS.
TOM CRINGLE'S LOG.
LOSS OF THE NAUTILUS, SLOOP OF WAR, ON A ROCK IN THE ARCHIPELAGO.
WRECK OF A SLAVE SHIP.
THE WRECKED SEAMEN.
ADVENTURES OF PHILIP ASHTON, WHO, AFTER ESCAPING FROM PIRATES,
EXPLOSION OF HIS B. MAJESTY'S SHIP AMPHION.
LOSS OF H. B. M. SHIP LA TRIBUNE, OFF HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA.
BURNING OF THE PRINCE, A FRENCH EAST INDIAMAN.
WRECK OF THE SCHOONER BETSEY, ON A REEF OF ROCKS.
EARLY AMERICAN HEROISM.
FINGAL'S CAVE.
THE LOSS OF THE RAMILLIES, IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.
PRESERVATION OF NINE MEN, IN A SMALL BOAT, SURROUNDED BY ISLANDS OF ICE.
CAPTAIN ROSS'S EXPEDITION.
LOSS OF THE CATHARINE, VENUS AND PIEDMONT TRANSPORTS; AND THREE MERCHANT SHIPS.
WRECK OF THE BRITISH SHIP SIDNEY, ON A REEF OF ROCKS IN THE SOUTH SEA.
LOSS OF THE DUKE WILLIAM TRANSPORT.
COMMODORE BARNEY.
NAVAL BATTLES OF THE UNITED STATES.
ADDRESS TO THE OCEAN.
A WEIRD SERIES OF
Tales of Shipwreck and Disaster,
FROM THE EARLIEST PART OF THE CENTURY TO THE PRESENT TIME,
WITH ACCOUNTS OF
Providential Escapes
AND
HEART-RENDING FATALITIES.
NEW YORK:
HURST & CO., Publishers,
122 NASSAU ST.
A ship running aground on rocks in high seas
