Shipwreck! A Chronicle of Marine Accidents & Disasters in British Columbia

The waters of British Columbia are dangerous - and have claimed thousands of vessels and thousands of lives over the last 250 years. This is a collection of 1900 of the most significant of those shipwrecks and marine disasters. Each one is documented with detailed accounts in an easy-to-read, easy-to-access book that will please the casual reader as well as the most dedicated nautical historian. In these carefully researched accounts, the author has separated myth from fact to tell true stories of 1,900 British Columbia marine wrecks and disasters.