# Wreck of the "London."

Author: Anonymous

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75381

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Wreck+of+the+%22London.%22+Anonymous&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The opening of the year 1866 will long be memorable for that dismal series of disasters at sea, which it ushered in with a frequency and fatality that were truly appalling. The New Year was scarcely fourteen days old when, from every part of the coast, from north to south, from east to west, the telegraph flashed the melancholy tidings of ruin and havoc among the shipping. We heard of ships being dismantled by the storm, and obliged to put back to port; of others being beaten to pieces, while their crews, escaping by the lifeboats, performed such acts of heroism that the seaman’s name was covered with fresh renown. Since the year 1859 never had such tempests raged, and such deeds of galla...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/wreck-of-the-london-75381/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/wreck-of-the-london-75381/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/wreck-of-the-london-75381/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/wreck-of-the-london-75381/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/wreck-of-the-london-75381/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/wreck-of-the-london-75381/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/wreck-of-the-london-75381/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/wreck-of-the-london-75381/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/wreck-of-the-london-75381/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/wreck-of-the-london-75381/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/wreck-of-the-london-75381/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/wreck-of-the-london-75381/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/wreck-of-the-london-75381/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/wreck-of-the-london-75381/chapters/1/index.md)