Hooton, Jonathan, The Glaven Ports (Blakeney History Group, Norfolk, undated)
Jarvis, Stan, East Anglia Shipwrecks (Countryside Books, Newbury, 2003)
Leach, Nicholas, Never Turn Back—An Illustrated History of Caister Lifeboats (Tempus Publishing, Stroud, 2001)
Malster, Robert, Saved from the Sea (Terence Dalton Ltd, Lavenham, 1974)
Weston, Chris and Weston, Sarah, Claimed by the Sea (Wood Green Publications, Norwich, 1994)
Young, Ron, Shipwrecks of the North-East Coast, Vols 1 and 2 (Tempus Publishing, Stroud, 2001)
ARTICLES AND REPORTS
Rabagliati, Lucy, Wrecks on the Coast Near Scoughall (RLS Club Yearbook, Edinburgh, 1995)
Index
Abbey Gardens (Tresco) [>]–[>], [>]
Ajay [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Alang [>]–[>]
alcohol
banned by Royal Navy (1970) [>]
and Politician grounding [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
seen as cause of loss of ships by Shipwreck Committee [>]–[>]
Alderney Race [>]
Alexander [>]–[>]
ambergris [>]–[>]
Anglesey [>]–[>]
Argyll, Duke of [>]
Association [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
asylum seekers [>], [>]
Atlantic Ocean [>], [>], [>]
Atlantis [>]
Bangladesh
ship-breaking yard [>], [>]
Baring-Gould, Sabine [>]
Barra [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Basel Convention [>], [>]
Bate, J.M. [>]
beach companies/beachmen [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
beachcombing [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Bermuda [>]
Bhavnagar [>]–[>]
Bishop (rock) [>], [>]
Blogg, Henry [>]
bodies
shipwrecked attitudes towards [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
body temperature [>]–[>]
Borlase, George [>], [>]
Boswell, James [>]
Bow Street Runners [>]
Bray, Julian [>]
Bremner, William [>], [>], [>], [>]
Bromholm Priory [>]
Brown, Bruce [>]
Burnie, William [>]
Byles, Charles [>]
Caister [>]
Caithness [>], [>]
Canadians [>]
Cape Wrath [>]
Capek, Karel [>]
Caribbean wrecks [>]
Carter, George [>]
cetaceans [>]–[>], [>]–[>] see also whales
Channel [>], [>]
difficulties in navigating and hazards [>]–[>]
Channel swimmers [>]–[>]
Charming Jenny [>]–[>]
Cheshire wreckers [>]–[>]
Chilcote, Captain [>]–[>]
Cita [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Coastguard, HM [>]–[>], [>]
Cobbs, J.F.
The Watchers on the Longships [>]
Coke, Lord [>]–[>]
Coll [>]
Collier, Mike [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Colquhoun, Patrick [>]–[>]
‘The Commerce and Police of the River Thames’ [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Commission of Inquiry (1839) [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Conrad, Joseph
Heart of Darkness [>]
Cornwall [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
attempt to suppress wrecking [>]
Church and wreckers/wrecking [>]–[>]
deliberate wrecking instance (1680) [>]
and Du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn [>], [>]–[>], [>]
false lights/deliberate wrecking rumours and denial of [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>],
geographical factors benefiting wreckers [>]–[>]
hazards along south coast [>]–[>]
lords of the manor and wrecking [>]–[>]
map [>]
meaning of wrecking to Cornish [>]–[>]
and Mülheim wreck [>]–[>]
number of wrecks [>], [>], [>], [>]
relationship between tinners and landlord [>]–[>]
reputation of coastline [>], [>]
selling of past [>]–[>]
shipping traffic [>]
weather from the Atlantic [>]
wreckers [>]–[>]
writers view of Cornish wreckers [>]–[>]
Corrievreckan (whirlpool) [>]–[>]
Coulter, Alexander [>]
Cromer [>]
Crooked Jack (John Sinclair) [>], [>]–[>]
Customs and Excise Act [>]
customs officers [>]
customs tariffs [>]
Dakin, Henry [>]
Davies, John [>]
Davies, Richard [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Deal boatmen [>]–[>]
Dean, Ben [>], [>], [>], [>]
Defoe, Daniel [>], [>]
account of Great Storm (1703) [>], [>]
on east coast erosion [>]–[>]
and Scilly Isles [>]–[>]
Dickens, Charles (son)
Dictionary of the Thames [>]
diving [>]–[>]
dolphins [>], [>], [>]
Dowling, Mr [>], [>]
Du Maurier, Daphne [>]
Jamaica Inn [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Duncansby Head [>], [>], [>]
Dundas, Lord [>]–[>]
Dunn, Bill [>]
Durham [>], [>]
Dutchman’s Cap [>]
East Anglia [>]–[>]
east coast [>]–[>]
and beachmen/beach companies [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
character [>]–[>]
erosion of [>]–[>]
hazards [>]–[>]
lifeboats [>], [>]–[>]
Louise wreck [>]–[>]
map [>]
Raby Castle wreck [>]–[>]
and rages [>]–[>]
salvage industry [>]–[>]
shipping traffic in North Sea [>]–[>]
weather conditions [>]–[>]
wrecking as an industry [>]
Eccles [>]
Eden, Reverend Robert [>]–[>]
Edward I, King [>]
Eigg [>]
Elizabeth Buckham [>]–[>]
English Channel see Channel
Exelby, Sophia [>], [>]–[>], [>]
false lights [>]
case involving mention of in Anglesey [>]–[>]
and Cornwall [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
mention of in legislation [>], [>]–[>]
Fielding, Henry [>]
figureheads [>], [>]–[>]
‘finders keepers’ rule [>], [>]
Fingal’s Cave [>]
fishermen
mortality rates [>]-[>]
reluctance to issue Mayday calls [>]–[>]
French wreckers [>]
Gattie, George Byng [>]–[>]
Gibson family [>]–[>]
Gibson, Frank [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Gibson, John [>], [>]
Gibson, Margaret [>]
Gilstone Reef [>], [>]
Gledhill, Ivan [>]
Global Positioning System (GPS) [>], [>]
Goodwin Sands [>], [>]–[>]
and Alexander [>]–[>]
attempts to light [>]
and Deal boatmen [>]–[>]
description [>]
diving in [>]–[>]
and hovellers [>], [>]–[>]
map [>]
movement of [>], [>]
number of wrecks [>]
and official salvors [>]–[>]
origins [>]
and pilots [>]–[>]
and Stirling Castle wreck [>], [>]
surfacing of island [>]–[>]
tides [>], [>]–[>]
treachery and notoriety of [>], [>]–[>]
wrecks and loss of lives [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Gray, Thomas [>]–[>], [>]–[
>]
Great Gale (1953) [>]
Great Storm (1703) [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Greenpeace [>], [>]
Gregson, John Taylor [>]–[>]
Groves, Mark [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Gulf of Cambay [>], [>], [>]
Gunn, George [>], [>]–[>]
Gunnaren [>]
haars [>]
Haisborough Sands [>]
Hamilton-Jenkin, A.K. [>], [>]
Harmony wreck [>]–[>]
Hawker, Reverend [>]–[>]
Hebrides/Hebrideans [>]–[>], [>]
Henry III, King [>]
Hidson, Dr Jeremy [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Hillary, William [>]
hovellers [>]
east coast [>]–[>]
Kent [>], [>]–[>]
Hoylake [>], [>]
Hoyland, John [>]
Hugh Town [>], [>]
Humphries, John [>]
India
ship-breaking in Alang [>]–[>]
International Labour Organisation [>]
International Salvage Union [>]
Isobel [>]
Jamaica Inn (Du Maurier) [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Jeffries, Bob [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Johanna Thorden tragedy (1937) [>]–[>]
Johnson, Lindsay [>], [>], [>]
Johnson, Samuel [>], [>]
Jura [>]
Kay, Captain [>], [>]–[>]
Kellet Gut (Goodwin Sands) [>], [>]
Kennedy’s Law of Salvage [>]
Killigrew, Sir John [>]–[>]
Kimbal, AB [>]
Kyne, Peter [>]
Lady Lucy [>]–[>]
Land’s End [>]–[>]
Langmaid, Kenneth [>]–[>]
Larn, Richard [>]
law [>]
mention of false lights in [>], [>]–[>]
and salvage [>]
unwritten rules of the sea [>]
and whales [>], [>]–[>], [>]
on what constitutes a wreck [>]–[>]
and wrecking [>]–[>], [>]
Lawson, TW [>], [>]
Lena [>]–[>]
Lethbridge, Matt and Pat [>]–[>]
Lethegus Rocks [>]
lifeboats/lifeboatmen
on east coast [>]
and salvage [>], [>]
Scilly Isles [>]–[>]
as wreckers [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>] see also RNLI
lifesaving [>]-[>], [>]-[>]
lighthouse keepers [>]–[>]
lighthouses [>]-[>], [>]
during Second World War [>]–[>], [>]
protest at construction of [>], [>]–[>]
St Agnes [>]
Skerryvore [>]–[>]
Liverpool [>]–[>], [>]
Lloyd’s agents [>], [>]
Lloyd’s of London [>]
Lloyd’s Register of Shipping [>], [>], [>]
Lloyd’s Salvage Association
Report (1867) [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Loe Bar [>]
London Labour and the London Poor (Mayhew) [>], [>]–[>]
Longships [>], [>]–[>], [>]
lords of the manor [>]–[>]
Louise [>]–[>]
McColl, Charles [>]–[>]
MacCulloch, John [>]
Mackenzie, Compton
Whiskey Galore [>]–[>], [>]
Maclean, Alasdair [>]–[>]
Maclean, Angus [>]–[>]
Macleod, John [>]–[>]
Malicious Damage Act (1861) [>]–[>]
‘man or beast’ ruling [>], [>]
Marine Support Unit (was River Police) [>]–[>], [>]
Maritime and Coastguard Agency [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Martin, Martin [>]
Mayhew, Henry
London Labour and the London Poor [>], [>]–[>]
Men of Mey [>]
Mercantile Marine Board [>]
Merchant Shipping Act (1894) [>], [>]
Mills, Joe [>]–[>]
Minnehaha [>]–[>]
Mount’s Bay [>]
Mowatt, Willie [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
mudlarks [>], [>]–[>]
Muir, Tom [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Mülheim, RMS [>]–[>]
Mussolini, Benito [>]
Natural History Museum and whales [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Nelson, Lord [>]
Nevada [>] [>]–[>]
Newlyn [>]–[>]
Norfolk [>], [>]
beachmen/companies [>]–[>]
number of wrecks [>]
yawls [>]
Norfolk Association for Saving the Lives of Shipwrecked Mariners [>]
North Ronaldsay [>]
North Sea [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Northern Lighthouse Board [>], [>]
Northumberland [>]
Ogle Castle [>]
Orkney [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Orwell, George [>]–[>], [>]
overboard, falling [>]–[>]
Patel, Mr [>], [>], [>], [>]
Peacock, Bob [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Pearce, Mike [>]–[>]
Pennsylvania [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Penrose, Rod [>]
Pentland Firth [>], [>]–[>]
currents and tides [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
hazards and dangers of [>], [>]
and Johanna Thorden tragedy [>]–[>]
and Lena wreck [>]–[>]
map [>]
navigation of [>]
number of wrecks [>]
and Pennsylvania wreck [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and pilots [>]–[>]
Scott’s visit to [>]–[>]
shipping movements [>]–[>]
superstitions and traditions in surrounding areas [>]–[>]
winds [>]
wrecking by Stroma ‘pirates’ [>]–[>]
Penzance [>]
pilots
Kent [>], [>]–[>]
and Pentland Firth [>]–[>]
Plimsoll, Samuel [>]
Plympton [>]–[>]
Poleaire [>]
Politician, SS [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
porpoise [>], [>]
Porteus, John [>], [>]–[>]
Portland Bill [>]
press gangs [>]–[>]
Prestige [>]–[>]
Protection of Wrecks Act [>]
Raby Castle [>]–[>]
rages [>]
(1953) [>]–[>]
‘rat catchers’ [>]
Receiver of Wrecks [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Regent [>]-[>]
Renton, Alex [>]
‘Report on the Subject of Wreck and Salvage’ (1867) [>]
Resolution [>]–[>]
Restoration [>]
Retarrier Ledges (rock) [>], [>], [>]
RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
attitude towards salvage [>]
distribution of lifeboat stations around British coast [>]
founding of [>], [>]
medals awarded by [>]
shops [>]
and Thames [>]
Roberts, Andy [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Royal Fishes Act [>]–[>]
Royal National Lifeboat Institution see RNLI
Rules of Oleron (1266) [>]–[>]
Sabin, Richard [>], [>]–[>]
St Agnes [>]–[>]
St Agnes lighthouse [>]
St Kilda [>]
St Mary’s [>], [>]
Salgado, Sebastiao [>]
salvage/salvors [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
definition [>]
east coast industry [>]–[>]
Kent [>]–[>]
and law [>]
and lifeboatmen [>], [>]
and Norfolk beachmen [>]–[>]
Scapa Flow [>], [>], [>], [>]
Schiller, SS [>]–[>], [>]
Scilly
Isles [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and Association disaster (1707) [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and Cita wreck [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
description [>]
lifeboats [>]–[>]
map [>]
number of wrecks [>], [>]
ownership of [>]–[>]
reforms under Smith [>]–[>]
reputation for wrecking [>]–[>]
and Schiller disaster (1875) [>]–[>], [>]
tourism [>]
vegetation [>]
and Western Rocks [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
wreckers [>]
Scotland [>]–[>], [>]
number of wrecks around [>]–[>]
see also Pentland Firth
Scott, Sigurd [>]–[>], [>]
Scott, Sir Walter [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Scottish Highlands [>]–[>], [>]
‘scuffle-hunters’ [>]
Sea of the Hebrides [>]
Second World War [>]
lighthouses during [>]–[>], [>]
merchant shipping lost [>]
wrecks during [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Sennen Cove [>]
Seven Stones [>]–[>], [>]
Sheringham [>]
ship-breaking [>]
at Alang [>]–[>]
at Bangladesh [>], [>]
and Basel Convention [>]
and United States [>]
shipowners [>], [>]
Shipwreck Committee
(1836) [>], [>]–[>]
(1843) [>]
Shipwreck Index of Great Britain [>]–[>], [>], [>]
shipwrecks
causes of [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
and diving [>]–[>]
law and [>]–[>]
lives lost [>]
number of [>]–[>], [>]
recommendations by Shipwreck Committee on preventing [>], [>]
taking photographs of [>]–[>]
technological advances and prevention [>]
victims of in eighteenth-century [>]–[>]
Shovell, Sir Cloudisley [>], [>]–[>]
Shrewsbury Chronicle (1774) [>]
Sidestrand [>]
Simpson, James [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Sinclair, Alasdair [>], [>]–[>]
Sinclair, John see Crooked Jack
Skerryvore [>]–[>], [>]
Skerryvore lighthouse [>]–[>]
Smith, Augustus [>]–[>], [>]
Smith, Reverend G.C. [>]–[>]
Sound of Eriskay [>]
Sound of jura [>], [>], [>], [>]
South Ronaldsay [>], [>], [>], [>]
South Uist [>]
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