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Shipwrecks in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras, 1793–1815. Causal Factors and Comments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 1999
Abstract
In his Presidential Address at the 52nd Annual General Meeting of the Institute, held in London on 21 October 1998, Air Commodore Pinky Grocott gave an analysis of the causal factors that resulted in the loss of 913 large sailing ships during the period of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras (1793–1815). Navigation and weather factors predominated, often aggravated by poor and untimely decision-making. Many of the lessons learnt are equally relevant today.
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