The Australian coast is littered with literally thousands of ships- convict transports, whalers, steamers, barques, destoryers, blackbirders - from the early Dutch wrecks of Western Australia to the recent tragedies of the Voyager and Faird Fares. Here, together in one book at last, is both an accurate account of more than 500 major Australian wrecks and a comprehensive series of maps showing their locations.

Bibliography: p. 117 and index.