Excerpt from A History of Shipwrecks, and Disasters at Sea, From the Most Authentic Sources, Vol.

1 The narratives of a similar kind that remain uni collected are numerous, and none deserve to perish.

All classes of readers may peruse them with profit.

Even the seaman himself may learn from those who have suffered by {such misfortunes, the resources of which others availed themselves in escaping from wrecks, and prolonging life on inhospitable shores, or he may see how to avoid errors, which under such circumstances proved doubly disastrous.