Wrecked on Fife's Rocky Shores: Dramatic Nineteenth-Century Tales of Shipwreck from Around the Coast of Fife - Couverture souple

Corstorphine, James K.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798759568513

Editeur : Independently published, 2021

Synopsis

Throughout most of the 1800’s, sea travel was considered to be the preferred, and indeed in some instances the only, means of travelling or transporting goods over any considerable distance within the British Isles. The only real alternative was by stage coach, for which the traveller had to endure long and tedious journeys trapped within the confines of a small compartment, in which its occupants were bumped and jostled as the coach hurtled along poorly made-up roads. Of course, for many landlocked areas, this was the only option.
It was not until the latter part of the nineteenth century, when the railway network started to develop, that there was any real alternative to sea travel. Of course, until the advent of the aeroplane, the conveyance of passengers and goods to other parts of the world had to be carried out entirely by sea.
As a result, Britain’s coastal waters were literally crammed with sea-going vessels for most of the nineteenth century, manned by thousands of sailors.
Safety regulations in those days were nowhere nearly as stringent as they are today; and, in some instances, were even non-existent. It was not until the mid 1800’s that there was any form of regulation stating that ships should carry lifeboats, and even after this rule was implemented the number of boats carried had nothing to do with the amount of people on board. Unbelievably, some Government ministers of the day even considered the carrying of lifeboats to be an unnecessary luxury, and were of the opinion that they would actually create a safety hazard by cluttering up the decks!
Inevitably, there were many ships wrecked and many lives lost during storms all around the coast of Britain during the nineteenth century, and Fife was no exception. This book contains the tales of just a few of the wrecks that occurred around Fife’s shores during the 1800’s, when lives were lost in tragic and horrific circumstances; depriving many homes of their sole breadwinner and leaving many grieving widows and fatherless children behind.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798759568513
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 188
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