The 14-year-old vessel was traveling from Liverpool, UK, to Le Havre, France, with a load of coal in tow when it was struck ...

The ship, the only means of escape ... especially on audio by Simon Vance and John Lee, and this book scratches that same kind of maritime itch (though it might also be caused by the lice ...

The true story of a British couple who spent four months adrift on a life raft in the Pacific Ocean, after their boat was ...

A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times ... They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war ...