Falconer served aboard a merchant ship that was wrecked off Cape Colonna in Greece, and survived to turn the disaster into a poem in three cantos. He follows the vessel through storm and leak, the debates of officers, the seamanship of the struggle and the final loss, with notes explaining the nautical terms he used so exactly.
A much-reprinted eighteenth-century poem, as valued by sailors for its accuracy as by readers for its drama. Download the free EPUB.