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"This is the fourtgh edition of a standard New Zealand work [that] was first published in 1936, revised and enlarged in 1951, and again in 1961, and is now futher revissed and brought up to date. Where new information has become available, it has been incoroporated in the text. The period 1961-70 is, of course, now covered for the first time, and the book thus records a total of about 1,900 shipping casualties over a period of 175 years."--Inside cover.