Very scarce complete year of the Maritime and Religious periodical issued for sailors by the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society, including all kinds of accounts of shipwrecks from around the world, counsel to avoid wrecks, tips on survival, plus adjacent content of interest to sailors, the whole generously seasoned with content designed to increase the faith and piety of sailors in general and rather beautifully illustrated.

No copies on the market for any year at the time of cataloguing. Scarce. 

The Shipwrecked Mariner. A Quarterly Maritime Magazine. January through December, 1881. Vol. XXVIII. 324pp.

Contents include:

*The Challenger Expedition

*What is Nauscopy?

*A Norwegian Viking's Ship

*The Study of Fishes

*The Weather Forecasts of Aratus

*A New Life Boat

*Naming of Ships

*Ventilation on Shipboard

*The Huston Berth

*The Sea and its Perils. The Wreck Register and Chart for 1878-1879 with Accompanying Folding Map [with tears, old tape repairs]

*The Atalanta

*The S.S. Carlos

*The Killeena

*A Lifeboat Accident

*The Royal National Lifeboat Institution

*Invention of Binocular Glasses

*Life-Saving Dress

*Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital

*Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society

*Relief to Shipwrecked Crews, their Widows, and Orphans

*Naval & Marine Exhibition, Glasgow and Shipbuilding on the Clyde

*Curious Sea Inhabitants [The United States Fishery Commission]

*Captain Cook [Series]

*Steam Navigation

*Throwing Oil on the Waters by a Shetlander

*The Scotch Fisheries

*Vessels Mission and Shipping Casualties for 1880

*Massacre of British Seamen

*A Terrible Voyage

*A Tale of Privation

*Burning of the Toyokuni Maru

*Suffering of a Ship's Crew

*Ninety Shipwrecks in Seventeen Days

*The Sea and its Perils

*Chinese Newspapers 

*Distrust in Self and Trust in Christ

*The Polly Pinkham Schooner

*The National Fisheries Exhibition, Norwich

*How to Prevent Drowning

*Her Majesty's Ship, Polyphemus

*Ship Pierced by a Swordfish

*A Shipwrecked Crew in Japan

*Singular Case of a Shipwreck

*The Wreck of the Tararua

*The Revised Version of the New Testament

*A Ship Sailing in Phosphorescent Sea [p.240]

*Some Northern Lighthouses

*On Comets and Meteors by a Cantab

*The Loss of the Steamship Teuton

*The Great Storm in Shetland

*Oysters in Tasmania, etc. etc. etc. 

Very good, attractive period half leather binding in a near fine state. Some light rubbing at extremities. Prelims and rears have some scattered foxing, as do the pages surrounding the above-described fold-out map, likely as a result of inferior paper being used for the map and endpapers. The map is torn and repaired amateurishly as described. Else fine.