Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction 1
6. The Casting Away of the Delight (1583)1 63
7. The Shipwreck of Father Charles Lalemant, Philibert Noyrot, and Others, off Cape Breton (1629)1 68
8. Shipwreck and Distress Suffer’D Near the Coast of Newfoundland: The Anne (1704)1 74
9. Account of a Wonderful Escape from the Effects of a Storm in a Journey Over the Frozen Sea in North America (1782)1 99
10. Vessels in the Service of the Moravian Mission on the Coast of Labrador, and Some Shipwrecks (1770-1877)1 110
11. Loss of his Majesty’s Packet, the Lady Hobart (1803)1 129
12. Extreme Personal Sufferings: The Rebecca (1816)1 152
13. The H.M.S. Drake (1822)1 163
14. Two Wrecks on the Petit Nord: The Belle-Julie and the Nathalie (1826)1 175
15. Shipwreck and Sufferings of the Crew and Passengers of the Brig Neptune (1830)1 189
16. A Newfoundland Missionary’s Journal: The Despatch and Others (l835)1 213
17. The Loss of the Barque Marshal M’Donald, off Newfoundland (1835)1 219
18. The Passage of the Pique Across the Atlantic (1835)1 234
19. Awful Shipwreck: The Francis Spaight (1836)1 264
20. Destruction of the Ocean Steamer Arctic, by Collision with the Vesta (1854)1 281
21. That Terrible Day (1892): The Reason1 309
22. My First Shipwreck: The Corisande (1893)1 314
23. Appendix A 325
24. Appendix B 326
25. Appendix C 331
26. Appendix D 347
27. Bibliography 353
28. Index 381