Author: ORTZEN, LEN.
Title: Stories Of Famous Shipwrecks.
Description: Second Impression; 8vo; pp. 153; bibliography; original cloth, title in gilt on spine, tear to rear of dustjacket, previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper otherwise a very good copy. London, Arthur Barker Limited, (1975). Len Ortzen describes thirteen disasters at sea from the early seventeenth-century Sea Venture which came to grief in the Somers Isles to the needless tragedy of the Lakonia in 1963.

Keywords: maritime ships shipwrecks seventeenth century Sea Venture Lakonia