Dimond, John T; edited by Gabriel and Nikolai Athiros Wrecked Under the Green Point Light The

The cover illustration is the Prince Rupert from an oil painting by Peter Bilas.

The author, John Dimond, completed his research and writing of the MS of this book in the late 1970s, but the MS was not discovered until his possessions were auctioned after his death. The present book is an edited version of his seven completed chapters - with two incomplete chapters, on the wrecks of the Mulgrove Castle (1825) and the Livanos (1847), having to be discarded. The remaining six wrecks are the Juliana (1839), the Prince Rupert (1841), RMS Athens (1865), SS Thermopylae (1899), SS Aotea (1911) and the S A Seafarer (1966).

Other chapters are "Green Point or Mouille Point Light?" and "Shipwrecks from Mouille Point to Green Point".

This is a slight book - colour wrap-around limp covers and 111 pp of text and index - but the excellent, illustrations, especially, compensate for several advertising pages. 

This excellent copy may well appeal to collectors of Southern African shipwrecks who may have overlooked its low-key publication eight years ago.