Media: BOOK - paperback 248 pages
Author: M. Brayne
Year: 2002
Other: photos, bibliography, index
Publisher: Sutton Publishing

Britain's night of destruction, November 1703

Martin Brayne details a series of miraculous escapes and violent deaths as hurricane force winds battered the country.
WESTERN DAILYPRESS

Excellent. The story of the storms that swept across the country on November 27, 1703, killing more than 8,000 people and causing colossal damage to buildings and ships.
SUNDAY EXPRESS

Drawing on primary and secondary sources (prominent among the latter Daniel Defoe's part-eye-witness account published in 1704) the author has produced a detailed and fascinating picture of an aberration of nature which makes the ‘hurricane’ of 1987 appear a mere squall by comparison, and sets it against a concise social survey of the country at the time. An absorbing read.
NAUTICAL MAGAZINE

CONTENTS
List of illustrations
Preface
1 Dies Irae
2 The Birth of The Storm
3 Dark is His Path
4 On the Wings of the Storm
5 Hurry-Durry Weather
6 This Fatal Piece
7 This Far the Waters Came
8 About Three Hundred Sail of Colliers
9 Damage Most Tragicall
10 Her True and Faithful Lover
11 Sir Cloudesley is Expected
12 As Dismal as Death
13 Within the Bills of Mortality
14 Carpenters, Caulkers and Seamen
15 Fast, Fact and Fiction
16 In Memoriam
Bibliography
Index