BLUNDERS & DISASTERS AT SEA :: Naval & Mercantile History :: Other Categories

A tragically entertaining anthology of more than 100 cases of human error and disaster at sea from the medieval sinking of the White Ship off Normandy, to Gunther Prien’s 1939 sinking of the Royal Oak at Scapa Flow.

The catalogue of human error leading to disaster at sea is as long and old as the history of mankind itself. In this chilling yet engrossing anthology of maritime disasters, David Blackmore details a hundred instances when incompetence, wind, stormy seas or sheer back luck created the conditions for catastrophe. Among the shipwrecks, fires, sinkings and monumental blunders he catalogues are : the sinking of the White Ship off Normandy which drowned Henry II’s son and heir; the kamikaze winds which twice scattered invading Mongols and saved Japan from invasion; the daring Dutch attack on the English fleet carelessly moored in the River Medway; Admiral Tryon’s overambitious manoeuvres which cause the collision of his flagship Victoria with HMS Camperdown off Syria in 1896 and took Tryon and 357 of his crew to the bottom; U-boat Captain Gunther Prien’s sinking of the Royal Oak at Scapa Flow in 1939 and many similar tales of triumph and tragedy.

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Product Code:	10855
Author:	David Blackmore
Format:	246pp, b/w photographs, hb. Published Price £19.99
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