Title: A necessary reference
Review: This book is a necessary addition for your bookshelf if you have an interest in novels about the Royal Navy. It details, chronologically, the Royal Navy ships lost between 1793 and 1900. Perhaps not surprisingly most ships were lost because of bad weather, poor navigation, or other misadventures (fires, mutiny, etc.). Besides the listing, there is a handy index by ship name which allows the reader an easy reference to a particular ship, and another index by geographic area. It is interesting to read, for example, of the fate of some of the ships captured at Trafalgar, some of which were recaptured shortly afterwards by the Spanish. I found that this book is a handy and interesting reference. It also provides brief details of the results of some of the court martials following the losses. The publishers printing job was not the best, as my copy has three blank pages where it should cover the years from 1890 to 1900, but that was a minor problem.
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