British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era, 1860‐1919

Having compiled, 12 years ago, a book on British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, the author has now supplemented it with a similar volume for the period which begins with the introduction of the armoured warship and ends with the aftermath of the First World War. He justly remarks that in spite of the provision of steam engines, which reduced some of the traditional dangers of the sea, the perils of shipwreck through stress of weather, inaccurate charts, or human error were still very much present in an era before radar or global positioning systems. Thus the...