Antiquity and the Classic epoch -- 1176 bce - Ambush in the Nile Delta -- 492 bce - Shipwreck on Mount Athos -- 480 bce - Sleepless at Salamis -- 429 bce - Want of practice at Naupactus -- 413 bce - Disaster in Syracuse Harbour -- 405 bce - Advice rejected at Aegespotomi -- 255 bce - Shipwreck on Sicily -- 249 bce - Sacrilege at Drepanum -- November 61 - Sailing to Rome out of season -- March 549 - The battle of the Tiber boom -- - the Medieval and Renaissance ages -- November 1084 - lack of ballast at Corcyra -- November 1120 - Tipsy navigators at Barfleur -- May 1213 - unguarded at Damme -- November 1274 - Typhoon at Dazaifu -- August 1281 - Shinto prayers at Imari Bay -- June 1340 - Immobility at Sluys -- January 1500 - Imperial Fiat -- July 1545 - Open gunports at Spithead -- July 1588 - The Spanish armada -- January 1614 - Fire on the Hudson river -- August 1628 - Open gunports off Stockholm -- June 1667 - Raid on the Thames Estuary -- June 1676 - Signal confusion off Oland -- May 1678 - Innovative navigation -- Early Modern times -- October 1707 - Lack of a reliable timekeeper -- February 1744 - Wrong man convicted? -- April 1756 - Inflexibility off Minorca -- August 1782 - Barrels of rum at Portsmouth -- January 1795 - Hussars on the Ijssselmeer -- August 1798 - Inadequate precautions at Aboukir Bay -- October 1803 - Uncharted waters off Tripoli -- February 1813 - Impetuosity in Chesapeake Bay -- July 1816 - Callous Inhumanity off Senegal -- November 1820 - Cetacean reprisal in Mid-Pacific -- October 1827 - Misunderstandings at Navarino Bay -- February 1847 - No celestial observation (1) -- August 1847 - No celestial observation (2) -- February 1852 - Women and children first -- The Late Nineteenth century -- May 1855 - The verdict was manslaughter -- September 1858 - Excess ventilation in mid-Atlantic -- September 1860 - Inadequate navigation rules on Lake Michigan -- April 1865 - Overworked and overburdened on the Mississippi -- July 1871 - Mental aberration in Gibraltar Bay -- September 1871 - Overrigged and unstable in the Bay of Biscay -- July 1873 - Compass deviation on the Atlantic -- August 1888 - Inattention on the Atlantic -- March 1889 - National pride at Apia -- June 1893 - Miscalculation off Syria -- February 1898 - Blown-up in Havana Harbour -- May 1898 - Defeatism at Manila Bay -- Recent times -- June 1904 - Criminal negligence on the East River -- October 1904 - Panic reaction on the North Sea -- May 1914 - Foggy confusion on the Saint Lawrence -- September 1914 - The price of giving aid on the North Sea -- October 1914 - The price of withholding aid on the North Sea -- January 1915 - Signal confusion at Dogger Bank -- February 1915 - Timidity at the Dardanelles -- May 1915 - Atlantic Travel Warning Ignored -- December 1917 - Passing on the wrong side at Hallifax -- March 1918 - Friendly fire over the English Channel -- September 1923 - Follow the leader to Honda Point -- The Second World War - The Axis ascendant -- July 1937 - The conflict begins -- October 1939 - Submarine infiltration of Scapa Flow -- June 1940 - Airborne death at Saint-Nazaire -- February 1940 - Friendly fire over the North Sea -- September 1941 - Submarine Action in the Sicily Strait -- December 1941 - Lack of air cover in the Gulf of Siam -- January 1942 - Anglophobia on the Eastern Sea frontier -- February 1942 - Fire in the New York Harbour -- February 1942 - A pyramid of blunders in the Channel -- June 1942 - The wrong Munitions at Midway -- July 1942 - Centralized interference with an Arctic convoy -- October 1942 - Preoccupation in mid-Atlantic -- November 1942 - Critical Delay at Tassafaronga -- The Second World War - The Allies strike back -- April 1944 - Surface infiltration off the Devon coast -- September 1944 - POW nightmare of Sumatra -- December 1944 - Inaccurate meteorology in the Pacific -- January 1945 - Acts of war or Russian war crimes? -- April 1945 - Breach of trust or American war crime? -- June 1945 Aerological lessons unlearned -- July 1945 - Overlooked and forgotten in mid-Pacific -- August 1945 - Japanese war crime -- the current period -- December 1948 - Lurking leftover in the Wangpoo River -- September 1949 - Wrongful default at Toronto -- January 1950 - Avoidance of responsibility at Norfolk -- July 1956 - Reliance on technology off New York -- May 1967 - excessive secrecy off the Sinai -- January 1968 - Embarrassment off North Korea -- August 1971 - Embarrassment at Athens -- May 1982 - Self-defense or another war crime? -- March 1987 - The disease of sloppiness off Zeebrugge -- December 1987 - Uncertificated officers off Mindoro -- December 1991 - Overconfidence on the Red Sea -- September 1994 - Designed for disaster -- August 2 - Pipe fracture under the Barents Sea -- September 2002 - Overload off Senegal -- December 2002 - Four times looks like carelessness -- Epilogue -- The recovery of Mary Rose -- The Spanish Armada and its English opponents -- Blok's explorations -- Raising Vasa -- Eighteenth century navigation -- The race to calculate longitude -- The development of steam-powered ironclads -- One survivor's story -- A daring cutting-out operation -- Theories about the Maine explosion -- Navigation lights, rules of the road, fog signals -- Questions about the Lusitania -- Second World War incidents involving over 1000 deaths -- Captain McVay's trial and exoneration -- Salvaging USS Missouri -- the fate of SS Stockholm -- New evidence regarding the Liberty incident -- Controversy over the Estonia incident -- Salvaging Kursk and Tricolor.