DÆDALUS
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