Come Hell or High Water: Extraordinary Stories of Wreck, Terror, and Triumph on the Sea Book

Acknowledgements     6
Introduction     7
The Floating Bomb - Prince, 1752     10
The Phoenix of Bird Island - Dodington, 1755     28
Taken by Storm - HMS Centaur and HMS Ramillies, 1782     55
Ice Ship - Albion, 1810     77
The Gorgon's Curse - Meduse, 1816     95
Worse Things Happen At Sea - Rothsay Castle, 1831     135
Death Sentence - Amphitrite, 1833     160
Maiden Voyage - San Francisco, 1853-54     180
A Clash of Titans - HMS Victoria and HMS Camperdown, 1893     208
Spanish Tragedy - Sirio, 1906     229
Almost Unsinkable - Titanic, 1912     249
The Sea Shall Not Have Them - USS Squalus, 1939     276
The Alexandria Raid - HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth, 1941     288
Our Friends, the Enemy - Laconia and U-156, 1942     316
To the Bitter End - Flying Enterprise, 1952     344
The Brotherhood of the Sea - Kursk and Priz AS-28, 2000/2005     366
Conclusion     389
Glossary     394
Illustration Credits     396
Index     397