Contents; Preface; Part I Of Sailors, Ships and the Sea; 1 Lloyd's and Lloyd's List; 2 Voyages and Voyagings; 3 Tonnage and Ships' Measurements; Part II Casualties, Calamities, Catastrohpes and Curiosities; 1 Message in a Bottle; 2 Corpses ; 3 Hard Weather Voyages: Gales, Storms and Hurricanes; 4 Remarkable Voyages; 5 Accidental Loss of Life; 6 Mutiny, Murder and Mayhem; 7 Sickness, Disease and Malnutrition (...and Suicide); 8 Fire!; 9 Ice!; 10 Earthquakes, Seaquakes and Volcanoes; 11 Whaling, Whales and Fishermen; 12 Shipwrecks, Collisions and Castaways (...and Cannibalism) |