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Title: Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849

Author: William O. S. Gilly

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Language: English

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NARRATIVES OF SHIPWRECKS OF THE ROYAL NAVY: BETWEEN 1793 AND 1849

Compiled Principally from Official Documents in the Admiralty

by

WILLIAM O. S. GILLY

With a Preface by

WILLIAM STEPHEN GILLY, D.D.
Vicar of Norham and Canon of Durham

London:
John W. Parker, West Strand

MDCCCL

CONTENTS

ADVERTISEMENT

PREFACE, BY THE REV. DR. GILLY

THE WRECK OF THE

BOYNE
AMPHION
TRIBUNE
RESISTANCE
PROSERPINE
SCEPTRE
QUEEN CHARLOTTE
INVINCIBLE
GRAPPLER
APOLLO
HINDOSTAN
ROMNEY
VENERABLE
SHEERNESS
ATHENIENNE
NAUTILUS
FLORA
AJAX
ANSON
BOREAS
HIRONDELLE
BANTERER
CRESCENT
MINOTAUR
PALLAS AND NYMPH
ST. GEORGE AND DEFENCE
HERO
DAEDALUS
PERSIAN
PENELOPE
ALCESTE
DRAKE
FURY
MAGPIE
THETIS
FIREFLY
AVENGER

LIST OF SHIPWRECKS OF THE ROYAL NAVY
BETWEEN 1793 & 1850

ADVERTISEMENT.

Some time ago a friend suggested that a selection of the most
interesting naval shipwrecks might be made from the official documents
of the Admiralty, in illustration of the discipline and heroism
displayed by British seamen under the most trying circumstances of
danger: permission to search the records was accordingly asked, and
most kindly granted by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and
the present volume is the result.

The Author is well aware that the task of preparing these materials
for publication might have fallen into better hands; and whilst he
gratefully acknowledges his obligations to the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty, for allowing him to have access to their Recor