spermaceti oil [>], [>]
Stanton, William [>]–[>], [>]
Statute de Praerogativa Regis (1324) [>]
Statute of Westminster [>], [>]
Stevenson, Alan [>]–[>]
Stevenson, Robert [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Stevenson, Robert Louis [>]
Kidnapped [>]
Records of a Family of Engineers [>]-[>], [>]
Treasure Island [>]
Stevenson, Thomas [>]
Stevensons [>]-[>]
Stirling Castle [>], [>]
Stogdon, David [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Stroma [>]–[>], [>]
crofts [>], [>], [>]–[>]
depopulation and reasons for [>]–[>], [>]
landscape [>]
and Pennsylvania wreck [>]–[>], [>], [>]
purchase of by Simpson [>]–[>]
seal colony [>]
ways of getting round customs officials [>]–[>]
and wrecking [>], [>]
Stroma pilots [>]
Stroma ‘pirates’ [>]–[>]
Stroma yoles [>]–[>]
Suffolk
number of wrecks [>]
suicides
Suilven [>]
Swona [>], [>], [>]
Taylor, James [>], [>]–[>], [>]
technological advances [>]–[>]
Thames Police Museum [>]–[>], [>]
Thames river [>]–[>]
asylum seekers and stowaways [>]
attempt to impose order along [>], [>]
Colquhoun’s treatise on [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
crime and lawlessness [>]–[>]
executions on [>]–[>]
factors making difference to crime on [>]–[>]
map [>]
and mudlarks [>], [>]–[>]
night and day plunderers [>]–[>]
and press gangs [>]–[>]
and river pirates [>]–[>]
and suicides [>]–[>]
and wreckers [>]–[>]
Thames River Police Force (later called Marine Support Unit) [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Tiree [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Titanic [>]
Tobban Rock [>]
Torran Rocks [>]
Torrey Canyon disaster (1967) [>], [>]
Tresco [>]–[>]
Trinity House [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Troutbeck, John [>]
United States [>]
and ship-breaking [>]
Vandervliet, Tess [>]–[>]
vice admiral system [>], [>], [>]
Victoria, Queen [>]
Voorspoed [>]
Watchers on the Longships, The (Cobbs) [>]
Wallasey [>], [>]
Weatherill, Syd [>]–[>], [>]
west coast [>], [>]–[>]
Cheshire wreckers [>]–[>]
and Corrievreckan whirlpool [>]–[>]
difficulties in preventing wrecking [>]–[>]
map [>]
peculiarity of [>]–[>]
and Politician [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
shipping along [>]
West India Company [>], [>]
Western Isles [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Western Rocks (Scilly Isles) [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
whales [>]–[>]
by-products from [>]–[>]
disposing of surplus [>]–[>]
hunting [>]
and the law [>], [>]–[>]
and Natural History Museum [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and Royal Fishes Act [>]
strandings and reasons for [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
whale-wreckers [>]–[>]
whirlpools
Corrievreckan [>]–[>]
Whiskey Galore (Mackenzie) [>]–[>], [>]
Wilkins, John [>], [>]
Wolf [>], [>], [>]
wreckers/wrecking
belief in absolute right to anything off an abandoned vessel [>]–[>]
Cornish definition [>]–[>]
definition [>]-[>]
heyday of [>]
and legislation [>]–[>], [>]
as lifeboatmen [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
metaphysical causes [>]–[>]
notion of ‘finders keepers’ [>], [>]
reasons for [>], [>]–[>]
scepticism over existence [>]
wrecks see shipwrecks
www.beachcomber.org [>]
yoles (yawls)
Norfolk [>]
Stroma [>]–[>]
About the Author
BELLA BATHURST is the author of The Lighthouse Stevensons, which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and of the novel Special. Her journalism has appeared in the Washington Post, the London Sunday Times, and other major periodicals. Born in London, she lives in Scotland.