SEA FIGHTS AND SHIPWRECKS

The deaths of many ships, from 1816 to 1945, fill these pages with courage, endurance, obedience, scandal, action and tragedy. The Lusitania, the Medusa, the Somers, the Birkenhad, the Graf Spee are among the stout ships whose histories make adventure-some reading here. The accounts are annotated by the author and others.