A Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters

book summary

Encyclopaedic in coverage and comprehensive in detail, this book records losses of more than 1,000 passenger-carrying vessels of all types (passenger liners, cruise ships and excursion vessels, ferries, troopships, hospital ships and other wartime auxiliaries) from the dawn of the age of powered navigation up to the present day. The accounts of these incidents are supported by full technical details for each of the featured ships.
Illustrated with more than 700 photgraphs, also contains tables in appendices describing the extreme losses of a further 125 ships which fall outside of its main coverage either for reasons of size (below (below 2,500 grt) or because the ships concerned carried only a few or no passengers at all in their normal employement.
The fruit or more than two decades of research, this important volume provides the most extensive listing and descriptions of passenger ship disasters ever published. While it is essential reading for all maritime historians, it is also the ideal single-source of information on this subject for anyone researching the loss of a passenger ship.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
Explanatory notes
Glossary of terms
A-Z Dictionary
Appendix 1: Small passenger vessel losses (below 2,500 gros-tons)
Appendix 2: Losses of wartime transports (below 150 normal berths)
Appendix 3: Passenger vessels lost en route to ship-breakers
Bibliography and sources
Index of wartime and alternative names