Shipwrecks Of The Revolutionary & Napoleonic Era is a chronicle of the shipping disasters during the last great war of the age of sail, based almost exclusively on the reporting of the time. Listed are some fifteen hundred ships, vessels naval and mercantile, of many nations whose tribulations were covered in the national and local newspapers as well as the specialist press like the Naval Chronicle. Given the sheer numbers of craft lost at sea, it cannot be entirely exhaustive, but no other book contains so much material and non-technical information on the maritime disasters of the period 1793 - 1815, so Shipwrecks Of The Revolutionary & Napoleonic Era is certain to become the standard work.