Near fine condition.Channel Four Books,1998.First edition-first printing(9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1).Blue hardback(silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(crease,nick and scratch on the Dj cover),both in near fine condition.Illustrated with colour,b/w photos.Nice and clean pages with light shelf wear on the outer edges,small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book,a couple of creases on the edges of the pages.Nice and clean book with light shelf wear inside the edges of the Dj cover.183pp including index.Price un-clipped. This is another paragraph Synopsis: Focusing on maritime disasters of the past half-century, this book includes the evidence of doctors, rescue and salvage workers, maritime engineers and designers, insurers and forensic experts. It discusses the two types of ship design which are known to be flawed: roll-on/roll-off ferries, including Herald of Free Enterprise and Estonia, and the giant container ships such as the Derbyshire, which sank in mysterious circumstances in the Pacific in the 1980s.