Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-206).
Contents
Le Griffon-1679 -- HMS Speedy-1804 -- USS Adams/HMS Detroit-1813 -- USS Niagara-1820 -- SS G.P. Griffith-1850 -- SS Lady Elgin-1960 -- SS Island Queen-1864 -- Alexander McDougall's whalebacks -- SS Kaliyuga-1905 -- SS Mataafa-1905 -- Rouse Simmons-1912 -- Great Lakes storm of 1913 -- SS Benjamin Noble-1914 -- SS Eastland-1915 -- UC-97-1921 -- The Marysburgh vortex -- SS Kamloops-1927 -- SS Nornonic-1949 -- SS Henry Steinbrenner-1953 -- SS Carl D. Bradley-1958 -- SS Edmund Fitzgerald-1975.