THE MARINER'S CHRONICLE
Being a Collection of the Most Interesting Narratives of Shipwrecks,
Fires, Famines, and Other Calamities incident to a Life of Maritime Enterprise;
with authentic particulars of the Extraordinary Adventures and Sufferings of the Crews,
Their Reception and Treatment on Distant Shores
and a
Concise Description of the Country, Customs and Manners
of the Inhabitants
including an
Account of the Deliverance of the Survivors,
Volume 4
Edited by
ARCHIBALD DUNCAN
JAMES CUNDEE: LONDON
1805
This copy lacks the title page but all the details seem to match the 1805 1st edition of The Mariner's Chronicle edited by Archibald Duncan. Rare.
CONTENTS
NARRATIVE OF THE WRECK OF THE BANGALORE, Captain Lynch, which was wrecked on a Coral Bank, in the Indian sea, April 12, 1802
NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF THE BOUNTY, through a Conspiracy, and the sufferings, &c. of those who were cast adrift in the Boat, 1789. Commanded by Lieutenant W. Bligh
THE SUFFERINGS AND PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE of some of the Crew belonging to the Guardian sloop, who quitted her in the Launch, December 25, 1785.
NARRATIVE OF THE TOTAL LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP THE BOUNTY: including the Transactions of the Mutineers, after they gained possession of the Vessel. Extracted from the Letters of Lieutenant Christian
THE LOSS OF THE YACHT INGEBORD, commanded by Captain Anders, which was pitched upon a Sand Bank, December, 1802
NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF THE PEGGY of London, Capt. Knight, which foundered in the Western Ocean, Oct. 29, 1715 ; communicated by one of the Crew
A NARRATIVE OF THE LOSSES AND DISTRESSES experienced by the Squadron sent out by the Court of Spain, commanded by Don Joseph Pizarro, to intercept the Expedition under Commodore Anson, in 1741, by Richard Walters, Chaplain of his Majesty's Ship the Centurion
THE SHIPWRECK OF CAPTAIN GEORGE ROBERTS, in his Passage from Virginia to the Coast of Guinea, in the Year 1721
NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF THE EARL OF ABERGAVENNY, East Indiaman, Captain John Wordsworth, which drove on the Shambles, off the Bill of Portland, and sunk in twelve fathoms water, February 5, 1805
THE LOSS OF THE CORBYN, commanded by Francis Pirard de Laval, on the Maldivia Islands
NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF THE ANTELOPE PACKET, Captain Wilson, which struck on Breakers off Pelew Island, August 9, 1783
DREADFUL CATASTROPHE ON BOARD THE JOHN AND ELIZABETH, bound from Jersey to England, December, 1795
SUFFERINGS OF ROBERT SCOTNEY, second Mate of the Brig Thomas, Captain Gardner, who survived by himself Seventy-five Days in a perfect Wreck, 1803
LOSS OF THE CHARLES BARING, West Indiaman, Captain Aris, in 1799.
SUFFERINGS OF EPHRAIM HOW, of New Haven, who set Sail for New England a small Ketch, which was wrecked near Cape Sable, 1676
SUFFERINGS OF ALEXANDER SELKIRK, who was left on Juan Fernandez, a desolate Island, 1704.
LOSS OF THE HARTWELL East Indiaman, Captain Fiott, near the Island of Bona Vista, May 24, 1787
LOSS OF THE SHIP NABBY, Philip Crandel, Master, which was wrecked near Bantry Bay, December 25, 1804
LOSS OF THE DORIS, Captain Campbell, which was wrecked between a Reef of Rocks near the Mouth of the Loire, January 1804
LOSS OF THE INDUSTRY SCHOONER, Captain Dwyer, which was wrecked near Portland, December 20, 1804
LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP THE TARTARUS, Captain Withers, on the Sands in Margate Roads, Decenıber 20, 1804
LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP THE SEVERN, commanded by Commodore d'Auvergne, Prince of Bouillon, which was wrecked on the Point of a Rock near Grouville, December 21, 1804.
NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP LA DETERMINÉE, of 24 Guns, Captain A. Becher, which struck on a Rock, in working into Jersey Roads, March 26, 1803
AN ACCOUNT OF AN INDIAN WOMAN, found on the South Side of Athapuscow Lake, West of Hudson's Bay, in January, 1772
NARRATIVE OF PETER SERRANO, who lived Seven Years on a sandy Island on the Coast of Peru
SUFFERINGS OF AN ENGLISHMAN, cast upon a small Island between Scotland and Ireland, in 1615
LOSS OF THE DROMEDARY STORE SHIP, Captain B. W. Taylor, which was wrecked on her passage to Trinidad, August 10, 1800
LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP DANAE, by a Conspiracy, commanded by Lord Proby, March the 14th, 1800
LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP NASSAU, of 64 Guns Captain George Trip, Commander, which was wrecked on the North Haak Sand Bank, off the Texel, October 27, 1799
PERILOUS SITUATION OF THE AMERICAN, SAMUEL (NOW SIR SAMUEL) STANDIGE, Captain, in a Voyage to Rhode Island, 1749
NARRATIVE OF THE SHIPWRECK OF MONS. Pierre Viaud, and his consequent Embarrassments, with Madame la Couture, on a desert Island, February, 1766
LOSS OF THE DUTTON East India Ship, on the S.W. Part of Mount Batten, January 26, 1796
ACCOUNT OF THE LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS, THE PORPOISE AND CATO, on a Sand Bank, off the Coast of New Holland, Aug. 17, 1800. Communicated by Captain Flinders of His Majesty's Ship the Investigator
17 x 18 cm. 386 pp + engraved plates.
A good reading or binding copy, contemporary half-leather binding very worn, missing all preliminary pages. Foxing throughout, heavy in places. First and last page creased and torn. Binding sound.
