This volume, the latest in a recent wave of popular publications on Newfoundland’s maritime history, examines various shipwrecks that occurred off the province’s coastline in the 19th and 20th centuries. Each of the book’s 19 chapters is devoted to a shipwreck (both local and foreign vessels). The first chapter deals with the scuttling of the HMS Sapphire off Bay Bulls in 1696 to avoid letting it into the hands of French enemy forces from Placentia. The last chapter recounts the 1970 double tragedy involving a herring seiner and a Canadian National Railways vessel, the Patrick Morris, in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.