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• A true relation how eighteen men were casta way [sic] at sea six of which perished in the ship, and the other twelve got into the boat, and lived at sea six weeks in it : with the great hardships they underwent, and how miraculously they were preserved / written by Philip Hanger ... (London : Printed for Charles Harper ..., 1675), by Philip Hanger (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Sad nevvs from the seas being a true relation of the losse of that good ship called the Merchant Royall which was cast away ten leagues from the lands end on Thursday night being the 23 of Septemb. last, 1641 ([London? : s.n.], 1641) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Strane avventure : avvenute in un viaggio marittimo a M. Viaud : unitamente a tredeci altre persone, elle quali non si salvarono che il detto M. Viáud, e Madame La Cuture, essendo costretti dalla necessità d'uccidere il proprio servo per farlo servire di loro sostentamento. (Per Antonio Cajani, con licenza de' super, 1784), by Pierre Viaud and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petri La Sena I.C. Neap. Cleombrotvs, siue, De ijs, qui in aquis pereunt, philologica dissertatio (Typis Iacobi Facciotti, 1637), by Pietro Lasena and Giacomo Facciotto (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fatall nuptiall: or Mournefull marriage Relating, the heavy and lamentable accident lately occurring, by the drowning of 47. persons, and some of those of especiall quality, in the water of Windermere, in the North. October 19: 1635. (London : Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, and are to be sold by Robert Bostocke, at the Kings head in Pauls Churchyard, 1636), by Richard Brathwaite (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A true and perfect account of a strange and dreadful apparition which lately infested and sunk a ship bound for New-Castle, called, The Hope-well of London. And of the strange deliverance of John Pye master, and nine men more; who were all examined and sworn to the following relation before Justice Wood of London. With allowance. Roger L'Estrange, March 30. 1672. (Edinburgh : [s.n.], Re-printed in the year, 1672), by John Pye and Nathaniel Jemson (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Saint Pauls ship-vvrack in his voyage to Rome, with the entertainment hee found amongst the barbarous people of Melita Delivered in a sermon at Meechny, alias Newhaven in Sussex, on the 8th of February, 1634. and occasioned by a ship-wrack which happened in the same place the Sunday-night before, being the first of February, to the losse of many mens lives. By Iohn Tillinghast, Rector of Taring Nevill, in Sussex. (London : Printed by R. B[adger] for Andrew Kembe, and are to be sold at his shop at S. Margarets Hill in South-warke, 1637), by John Tillinghast (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The fatall nuptiall: or Mournefull marriage Relating, the heavy and lamentable accident lately occurring, by the drowning of 47. persons, and some of those of especiall quality, in the water of Windermere, in the North. October 19: 1635. (London : Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, and are to be sold by Robert Bostocke, at the Kings head in Pauls Churchyard, 1636), by Richard Brathwaite (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Wunderbaren Reisen auch ausserordentliche Glücks- und Unglücks-fälle eines gebohrnen Normanns, Woldemar Ferdinand (F.C. Mumme, 1741), by Johann Michael Fleischer (page images at HathiTrust)

• A true relation of that vvhich lately hapned to the great Spanish fleet, and galeons of Terra Firma in America With many strange deliueries of captaines, and souldiers in the tempest, and other remarkable accidents, worthy the obseruation. Also, a catalogue of those persons of account, which eyther perished in this tempest, or were miraculously preserued. Faithfully translated out of the Spanish originall, as it is printed and published in Madrid, Sevil, Lishbone, and other places. (London : printed [by George Eld] for Nathaniel Butter, Nicholas Bourne, and William Sheffard, 1623) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A lamentable narration of the sad disaster of a great part of the Spanish plate-fleet that perished neare St. Lucas where the Marquis, his Lady, and children, and many hundreth of Spanyards were burnt and sunke in the bottome of the sea, by the valour and prowess of the two brave Generals Mountague and Blake in the yeare, 1657. being their first victory obtained against the Spanyard in that voyage. (London : Printed by T.F. for N.B., [1658]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Benjamin's lamentation for their sad loss at sea, by storms and tempests Being a brief narrative of one of his Majesties ships, called the Benjamin, that was drove into harbour at Plimouth, and received small harm by this tempest. To a new tune, called, The poor Benjamin. ([London] : Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke, [1676?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Benjamin's lamentation for their sad loss at sea by storms and tempests being a brief narrative of one of his Majesty's ships, call'd, the Benjamin, that was drove into harbour at Plimouth, and received no small harm by this tempest. To a new tune, call'd, The poor Benjamin, O, &c. (London : printed by and for W. D. and sold by the booksellers, [1698?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A monumental memorial of marine mercy being an acknowledgement of an high hand of Divine deliverance on the deep in the time of distress, in a late voyage from Boston in New-England to London, anno 1683. : In a poem. / By Richard Steere. ; To which is added another occasioned by several remarkable passages happening at the birth of a male child on board the same ship in her voyage returning 1684. By the same author then a passenger. ([Boston] : Printed at Boston in New-England by Richard Pierce for James Cowse stationer, anno 1684), by Richard Steere (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An account of the loss of His Majesty's ship Deal Castle, commanded by Capt. James Hawkins, off the island of Porto Rico, during the hurricane in the West-Indies, in the year 1780. (Printed by J. Murray ..., 1787), by Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• An houre glasse of Indian newes. Or A true and tragicall discourse, shewing the most lamentable miseries, and distressed calamities indured by 67 Englishmen, which were sent for a supply to the planting in Guiana in the yeare. 1605 VVho not finding the saide place, were for want of victuall, left a shore in Saint Lucia, an island of caniballs, or men-eaters in the West-Indyes, vnder the conduct of Captain Sen-Iohns, of all which said number, onely a 11. are supposed to be still liuing, whereof 4. are lately returnd into England. Written by Iohn Nicholl, one of the aforesaid company. (London : Printed [by Edward Allde] for Nathaniell Butter, and are to bee solde at his shop neere Saint Austens Gate, 1607), by John Nicholl (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Defensa juridica, que se hace a favor del Maestre Don Christoval de Barragan, vecino de Cadiz, en el Real, y Supremo Consejo de las Indias, sobre que se reforme en grado de Revista la providencia dada en el de Vista, sobre el particular de la fragata, que salio del Puerto de Cadiz para el de Cartagena de las Indias. ([s. n.], 1758), by Cristóbal Barragán, Juan José Ortiz de Amaya, and Colegio Menor de Santa Catalina Mártir de los Verdes (Alcalá de Henares) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defensa juridica, que se hace a favor del Maestre Don Christoval de Barragan, vecino de Cadiz, en el Real, y Supremo Consejo de las Indias, sobre que se reforme en grado de Revista la providencia dada en el de Vista, sobre el particular de la fragata, que salio del Puerto de Cadiz para el de Cartagena de las Indias. (s.n., 1700), by Juan José Ortiz de Amaya (page images at HathiTrust)
• Debiendo en este caso manifestar la Justicia, que assiste á Don Christoval Barragàn, vecino de la ciudad de Cadiz, Maestre que fué de la fragata nombrada Nra. Sra. de los Dolores, que hizo viage à la America, y Puerto de Cartagena, en el año passado de 1749 desde la bahía de dicha ciudad de Cadiz, para que en la presente Instancia de Revista, se reforme la Sentencia de Vista de el Consejo de 18 de Marzo del año passado de 1755 ... ([s. n.], 1758), by Cristóbal Barragán and Colegio Menor de Santa Catalina Mártir de los Verdes (Alcalá de Henares) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defensa juridica, por el Maestre Don Christoval de Barragàn, vecino de Cadiz, con Don Juan Antonio Ximenez, y Don Antonio Lopez de Herrera, apoderados de la Universidad de Cargadores à Indias, sobre que se revoque la sentencia pronunciada en 18 de Marzo de 1755 por el Real, y Supremo Consejo de las Indias, en que se confirmò la del Governador de Carthagena de Indias, dada en 7 de Abril de 1750. ([s. n.], 1762), by Cristóbal Barragán and Colegio Menor de Santa Catalina Mártir de los Verdes (Alcalá de Henares) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial ajustado, hecho con citacion de las partes, en virtud de Decreto del Consejo de 19 de Julio de 1759, de los autos seguidos por Don Christoval Barragán, Maestre de la fragata nombrada Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, con Don Antonio Lopez de Herrera, y Don Juan Antonio Ximenez, del Comercio de la Carrera de Indias, diputados de los interesados en la carga que llevò la referida embarcacion, desde Cadiz à Cartagena, por el año 1749, sobre la paga de la Haverìa gruessa, y prorratèo entre dichos interessados de lo que se echò al mar en el enunciado viage. ([s. n.], 1760), by Cristóbal Barragán, Joaquín Canet, Javier Fermín Izuriaga, and Colegio Menor de Santa Catalina Mártir de los Verdes (Alcalá de Henares) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The sad and dreadfull accident of the burning of a rich Turkey ship by lightning, in the road of Gravesend: on Thursday the 23d. of June, 1687. ([London : s.n., 1687]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Ship Collisions With Bridges: The Nature of the Accidents, Their Prevention and Mitigation (Washington: National Academy Press, 1983), by National Research Council Committee on Ship-Bridge Collisions
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• The La Follette law from the Consumers' League point of view. (National Consumers' League, 1915), by Florence Kelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marine investigation regulations and suspension and revocation proceedings, title 46, C. F. R., parts 136 and 137. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1948), by United States Coast Guard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special study of collisions within the navigable waters of the United States; consideration of alternative preventive measures. (National Technical Information Service, 1972), by United States. Bureau of Surface Transportation Safety (page images at HathiTrust)
• Study of collisions of radar-equipped merchant ships and preventive recommendations. (Washington, 1968), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Study of towing vessel safety and accident preventive recommendations. (Washington, 1969), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marine casualty report: SS Badger State, explosion aboard and eventual sinking in the North Pacific Ocean, December 26, 1969; U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation report and Commandant's action (Washington, 1971), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board and United States. Coast Guard. Marine Board of Investigation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marine casualty report: sinking of the motor towing vessel Joan Ellis in Galveston Bay, July 22, 1970. U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation report and commandant's action (Dept. of Transportation, 1971), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Disappearance of the S.S. Poet hearings before the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, on the fate of the U.S.-flag freighter, the S.S. "Poet," which disappeared with all hands aboard, April 9, June 24, 1981. (U.S. G.P.O., 1981), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marine casualty report : SS Marine Electric, O.N. 245675, capsizing and sinking in the Atlantic Ocean on 12 February 1983 with multiple loss of life : U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation report and Commandant's action. (U.S. Dept. of Transportation, U.S. Coast Guard ;, 1984), by United States Coast Guard and United States. Coast Guard. Marine Board of Investigation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marine casualty report : SS American Eagle, O.N. 278327, explosion in the Gulf of Mexico on 26 February 1984 and subsequent sinking on 27 February 1984 with loss of life : U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation report and Commandant's action. (U.S. Dept. of Transportation, U.S. Coast Guard ;, 1985), by United States Coast Guard and United States. Coast Guard. Marine Board of Investigation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marine casualty report : tankship Puerto Rican O.N 535000, explosion and fire in the Pacific Ocean, on 31 October 1984 with loss of life : U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation report and Commandant's action. (U.S. Dept. of Transportation, U.S. Coast Guard ;, 1985), by United States Coast Guard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special study : major marine collisions and effects of preventive recommendations (The Board ;, 1981), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marine accident report. (The Board, in the 20th century), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analysis of the environmental conditions affecting accidents at sea. (U.S. Dept. of the Navy, Hydrographic Office, 1954), by United States. Hydrographic Office, W. E Tamblyn, Q. H Carlson, and J. E O'Hare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Disappearance of the S.S. Poet : hearings before the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, on the fate of the U.S.-flag freighter, the S.S. "Poet," which disappeared with all hands aboard, April 9, June 24, 1981. (U.S. G.P.O., 1981), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marine accident report : tripping and sinking of the tug Lauren Castle while towing the tanker SS Amoco Wisconsin on Traverse Bay, Michigan, November 5, 1980 (The Board ;, 1981), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marine accident report : Brazilian bulk carrier M/V Frotaleste collision with Portuguese freighter M/V Cunene, lower Mississippi River near Bonnet Carre Point, Louisiana, January 22, 1980 (The Board ;, 1981), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ōtori no hakaze : kaiyō sōwa (Hakubunkan, 1913), by Sadaichi Fujita (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marine casualty report : entanglement of the submersible Johnson Sea Link with submerged wreckage off Key West, Florida on or about 17 June 1973 with loss of life : U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation report and commandant's action : action by National Transportation Safety Board (Dept. of Transportation [and] Coast Guard, 1975), by United States. Bureau of Surface Transportation Safety, United States. Coast Guard. Marine Board of Investigation, and United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marine casualty report : SS C. V. Sea Witch - SS Esso Brussels (Belgium) : collision and fire in New York Harbor on June 1973 with loss of life : U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation report and commandant's action : action by National Transportation Safety Board. (Dept. of Transportation, Coast Guard, 1976), by United States. Bureau of Surface Transportation Safety, United States Coast Guard, and United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marine casualty report, SS William T. Steele : death of three ships officers at Guayanilla, Puerto Rico on 18 November 1972 : U. S Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation report and Commandant's action : action by National Transportation Safety Board (National Transportation Safety Board, 1974), by United States. Bureau of Surface Transportation Safety, United States Coast Guard, and United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fatigue and alertness in merchant marine personnel : a field study of work and sleep patterns (U.S. Coast Guard, Marine Safety and Environmental Protection ;, 1997), by Thomas Frederick Sanquist, United States. Coast Guard. Marine Safety and Environmental Protection, and Battelle Seattle Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of extreme waves and their effects on ship structure. (Ship Structure Committee ;, 1983), by William H. Buckley, DWTNSR & DC (Firm), and United States. Ship Structure Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vessel collision damage resistance : development of a preliminary test plan for large/full scale vessel collision tests with test criteria definition and feasibility evaluation, final report (United States Coast Guard, Office of Research and Development, 1980), by P. R. Van Mater and Giannotti & Associates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Procedures for investigating and reporting human factors and fatigue contributions to marine casualties (U.S. Coast Guard, Marine Safety and Environmental Protection ;, 1996), by Anita M. Rothblum, Mireille Raby, Marvin Charles McCallum, United States. Coast Guard. Marine Safety and Environmental Protection, U.S. Coast Guard Research & Development Center, and Battelle Seattle Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ships lounge burnout experiments (U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Research and Development ;, 1982), by R. C. Richards, A. Datta, U.S. Coast Guard Research & Development Center, and United States. Coast Guard. Office of Research and Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• User's manual for simulations of man overboard and abandon ship casualties to study rescue boat performance (The Office ;, 1978), by Casde Corporation and United States. Coast Guard. Office of Research and Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analysis of bridge collision incidents (Department of Transportation, United States Coast Guard, Office of Research and Development ;, 1976), by R. B. Dayton, United States. Coast Guard. Office of Research and Development, and Operations Research Incorporated (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of the shipwreck and sufferings of Miss Ann Saunders who was a passenger on board the ship Francis Mary which foundered at sea on the 5th Feb. 1826, on her passage from New Brunswick to Liverpool ... to be joined in marriage (Printed for Z.S. Crossmon, 1827), by Ann Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collection of interesting accounts of naval disasters (Published by Andrus and Starr, John Russell, jr. printer, 1813) (page images at HathiTrust)
• O stolknovenīi morskikh sudov : proekt s obʺi︠a︡snenīi︠a︡mi (Gos. tip., 1907), by V. S. Sadovskīĭ and Russia. Ministerstvo torgovli i promyshlennosti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation of a fatal accident which occured at Lahaina, Maui, on May 1, 1915, in which Chow Soy (Male and S. Ushi Kuwaye (Female) were drowned while being transported to the landing from the S.S. "Kilauea" operated by the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co., ltd. conducted by the Public Utilities Commission of Hawaii. (Honolulu, 1915), by Hawaii. Public Utilities Commission and Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Study of task performance problems in reports of collisions, rammings, and groundings in harbors and entrances (Dept. of Transportation, Coast Guard, Office of Research and Development ;, 1979), by United States. Coast Guard. Office of Research and Development and B. Paramore (page images at HathiTrust)
• WATS accidents reported from January 1976 to July 1977 : a descriptive analysis of the accident alert reports (Dept. of Transportation, Coast Guard, Office of Research and Development ;, 1977), by N. Whatley, J. Bowman, and United States. Coast Guard. Office of Research and Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• National Response Center (The Guard, 1982), by National Response Center (U.S.) and United States Coast Guard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marine safety program : hearings before the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Navigation of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, on H.R. 3486 ... July 19, 27, August 2, September 29, 1983. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Navigation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cattle ships, being the fifth chapter of Mr. Plimsoll's second appeal for our seamen ... (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1890), by Samuel Plimsoll (page images at HathiTrust)
• Developing tanker casualty and tanker traffic databases for 1969-1977 (The Coast Guard ;, 1980), by inc Science Applications and United States Coast Guard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naval Sea Systems Command review of the U.S.S. Iowa investigation : final report (Dept. of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command, 1991), by Kenneth C. Malley and United States. Naval Sea Systems Command (page images at HathiTrust)
• Capsizing of New York State-certified vessel, Ethan Allen, Lake George, New York, October 2, 2005. (National Transportation Safety Board ;, 2006), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sandia National Laboratories review of the USS Iowa incident : final report (the Laboratory, 1991), by United States. Department of Energy and Sandia National Laboratories (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the great dangers and distresses, and the remarkable deliverance of Capt. Nathanael Peirce, who sail'd from Portsmouth, in New-Hampshire, bound for Louisbourg; and being taken up at sea, was carried to Oporto. / Written by himself. (Boston: : Printed and sold by Edes and Gill, in Queen-Street,, 1756), by Nathanael Peirce (HTML at Evans TCP)

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