Shipwrecks and other maritime disasters

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Victorian shipwrecks

• The reality of shipwreck
• Abandonment of The Regular, Indiaman off the Cape of Good Hope, 1843
• The Europa, Mail Steam-Ship, and Boats, Rescuing Emigrants from the Charles Bartlett, 1849
• Wreck of the Edmund, 1850
• Collision between the Duchess of Kent and the Ravensbourne steamers, off Northfleet Point, 1852
• Wreck of the George Lord off the Isle of Wight, 1856
• The screw Steam-ship MelbourneRoyal Standard in collision with an iceberg on the home voyage from
• Wreck of the Polyphemus, 1856
• Wreck of the Chilean steamer Cazador, 1856
• The Double Disaster at the Mouth of the Mersey, 1863
• The Wreck of the Leila, 1863
• Wreck of the H.M.S. Athens in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, 1865
• The water-logged ship Jane Lowden, 1866 (a drifting ship with dead crew)
• Wreck of the Ship Eugénie, near Cork
• The late storm — great loss of life in Torbay (30 ships lost), 1866
• Wreck of the Spirit of the Ocean at Start Point, Devon, 1866
• Wreck of a fishing-smack outside the pier of Ramsgate Harbour, 1867
• Rescue of the crew of the Caber-Faigh on the Owens Shoal, Isle of Wight, 1867
• The Laconia rescuing the crew of the Amalia in the Bay of Biscay, 1867
• Wreck of the Oregon under Picklecombe Battery, Plymouth Sound
• The Hurricane at Madras: Wrecks on the Beach, 1872
• The North German Lloyd’s Steam-ship Baltimore aground at Hastings, 1872
• Wreck of the Duncan Dunbar, Australian Passenger Ship off the Coast of Brazil (1875)
• Vessels Ashore in Batten Bay, Plmouth Sound during the Late Gale (1875)
• “Terrible Collision on the Thames: Great Loss of Life” (First article, in 7 September ILN)
• The Great Disaster on the Thames: Collision between the Princess Alice and the Bywell Castle, near Woolwich (1875)

Shipwrecks as a cultural code or paradigm

The Late Storms: the “Loss-Book,” a Sketch at Lloyd’s

• Into the Moment of Crisis
• Images of Crisis and Interarts Criticism
• Images of Crisis as Cultural Code
• Pre-Modern Images of Crisis; or Shipwrecked in the Sight of God
• The Shipwreck Image and Situation as Paradigm
• Ambiguous Images and Crisis
• Shipwrecks Literary, Literal, and Opaque

Shipwrecks and heroism

• Mr. Samuel Popplestone, The First Recipient of the Albert Medal
• The Albert Medal

Shipwrecks in nineteenth-century art and literature

• Lautréamont's Les Chants de Maldoror
• Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
• Géricault's The Raft of the 'Medusa'
• J.M.W.Turner's Slave Ship

Stages of shipwreck and disaster

• A typology of shipwrecks and imperilled mariners
• The reality of shipwreck
• The destination disappears
• The pole-star vanishes
• Drifting on the waste ocean
• The mind a wandering bark
• William Falconer and the meaning of shipwreck
• Recognitions of the swimmer
• Shipwrecked and cast away in the sea of time
• Variations of Robinson Crusoe
• Political and social shipwrecks and castaways
• The advantages of the castaway

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