About this title
The first comprehensive account of the sudden capsizing of HMS Royal George at Spithead on 29 August 1782, in which Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt and more than 800 crew and visitors drowned. Draws on contemporary survivor and eyewitness reports and follows the wreck and its salvage across the decades that followed.
Intended audience
- naval history readers
- Georgian-era historians
- general readers interested in maritime disasters
Subject classification
- Naval History
- Maritime History
- Eighteenth-Century British History
Scope
- Royal Navy in the late 18th century
- biography of Richard Kempenfelt
- ship design and armament
- the 1782 capsizing
- salvage and afterlife of the wreck
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Catastrophe at Spithead: The Sinking of the Royal George
- Year
- 2020
- Publisher
- Seaforth Publishing
- Catalogue authors
- Hilary L. Rubinstein