BLUNDERS AND DISASTERS AT SEA
Written by David Blackmore
Published by Pen & Sword Books
in 2004
ISBN: 1844151174
BLUNDERS AND DISASTERS AT SEA
Written by David Blackmore.
Stock no. 2128433
1st.
2004.
Hardback.
Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
A superb collection of short stories of well researched and concise accounts of dramatic, yet tragic, maritime incidents. Dark green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1844151174.
Front cover
Contents
- Prologue
- PART 1: ANTIQUITY AND THE CLASSIC EPOCH
- 1176 BCE - Ambush in the Nile Delta
- 492 BCE - Shipwreck on Mount Athos
- 480 BCE - Sleepless at Salamis
- 429 BCE - Want of Practice at Naupactus
- 413 BCE - Disaster in Syracuse Harbour
- 405 BCE - Advice Rejected at Aegespotomi
- 255 BCE - Shipwreck on Sicily
- 249 BCE - Sacrilege at Drepanum
- November 61 - Sailing to Rome out of Season
- March 549 - The Battle of the Tiber Boom
- PART 2: THE MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE AGES
- November 1084 - Lack of Ballast at Corcyra
- November 1120 - Tipsy Navigators at Barfleur
- May 1213 - Unguarded at Damme
- November 1274 - Typhoon at Dazaifu
- August 1281 - Shinto Prayers at Imari Bay
- June 1340 - Immobility at Sluys
- January 1500 - Imperial Fiat
- July 1545 - Open Gunports at Spithead
- July 1588 - The Spanish Armada
- January 1614 - Fire on the Hudson River
- August 1628 - Open Gunports off Stockholm
- June 1667 - Raid on the Thames Estuary
- June 1676 - Signal Confusion off Oland
- May 1678 - Innovative Navigation
- PART 3: EARLY MODERN TIMES
- October 1707 - Lack of Reliable Timekeeper
- February 1744 - Wrong Man Convicted?
- April 1756 - Inflexibility off Minorca
- August 1782 - Barrels of Rum at Portsmouth
- January 1795 - Hussars on the Ijsselmeer
- August 1798 - Inadequate Precautions at Aboukir Bay
- October 1803 - Unchartered Waters off Tripoli
- February 1813 - Impetuosity in Chesapeake Bay
- July 1816 - Callous Inhumanity off Senegal
- November 1820 - Cetacean Reprisal in Mid-Pacific
- October 1827 - Misunderstandings at Navarino Bay
- February 1847 - No Celestial Observation (1)
- August 1847 - No Celestial Observation (2)
- February 1852 - Women and Children First
- PART 4: THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- May 1855 - The Verdict was Manslaughter
- September 1858 - Excess Ventilation in Mid-Atlantic
- September 1860 - Inadequate Navigation Rules on Lake Michigan
- April 1865 - Overworked and Overburdened on the Mississippi
- July 1871 - Mental Aberration in Gibraltar Bay
- September 1871 - Overrigged and Unstable in the Bay of Biscay
- July 1873 - Compass Deviation on the Atlantic
- August 1888 - Inattention on the Atlantic
- March 1889 - National Pride at Apia
- June 1893 - Miscalculations off Syria
- February 1898 - Blown-Up in Havana Harbour
- May 1898 - Defeatism at Manila Bay
- PART 5: RECENT TIMES
- June 1904 - Criminal Negligence on the East River
- October 1939 - Submarine Infiltration of Scarpa Flow
- June 1940 - Airborne Death at Saint -Nazaire
- February 1940 - Friendly Fire over the North Sea
- September 1941 - Submarine Action in the Sicily Strait
- December 1941 - Lack of Air Cover in the Gulf of Siam
- January 1942 - Anglophobia on the Eastern Sea Frontier
- February 1942 - Fire in New York Harbourt
- February 1942 - A Pyramid of Blunders in the Channel
- June 1942 - The Wrong Munitions at Midway
- July 1942 - Centralized Interference with an Arctic Convoy
- October 1942 - Preoccupation in Mid-Atlantic
- November 1942 - Critical Delay at Tassafaronga
- PART 7: THE SECOND WORLD WAR - THE ALLIES STRIKE BACK
- April 1944 - Surface Infiltration off the Devon Coast
- September 1944 - POW Nightmare off Sumatra
- December 1944 - Inaccurate Meteorology in the Pacific
- January 1945 - Acts of War or Russian War Crimes?
- April 1945 - Breach of Trust or American War Crime?
- May 1945 - Tragic Error or British War Crime?
- June 1945 - Overlooked and Forgotten in Mid-Pacific
- August 1945 - Japanese War Crime
- PART 8: THE CURRENT PERIOD
- December 1948 - Lurking Leftover in the Wangpoo River
- September 1949 - 'Wrongful Default' at Toronto
- January 1950 - 'Avoidance of Responsibility' at Norfolk
- July 1956 - Reliance on Technology off New York
- May 1967 - Excessive Secrecy off the Sinai
- January 1968 - Embarrassment off North Korea
- August 1971 - Embarrassment at Athens
- May 1982 - Self-Defence of Another War Crime?
- March 1987 - 'The Disease of Sloppiness' off Zeebrugge
- December 1987 - Uncertificated Officers off Mindoro
- December 1991 - Overconfidence on the Red Sea
- September 1994 - Designed for Disaster
- August 2000 - Pipe Fracture under the Barents Sea
- September 2002 - Overload off Senegal
- December 2002 - Four Times Looks Like Carelessness
- Epilogue