This is a new edition of Alan Villiers' famous book on ships lost without trace in this century. In graphic detail Captain Villiers tells the story of vessels, large and small, that have disappeared and been "posted missing" by Lloyds of London. They range from small fishing craft to the 20,000-ton Brazilian battleship Sao Paulo which vanished off the Azores in 1951. In his new Introduction Alan Villiers brings the record up-to-date with the extraordinary fact that in the last decade, in spite of sophisticated means of communication and efficient methods of sea rescue, seventy merchantmen have been posted missing.
In his research Captain Villiers has visited the ports from which many of the vanished ships sailed, and he has had access to official reports and findings. The result is an authoritative and fascinating book revealing that the oceans of the twentieth century still breed enigmas.
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