Worse Things Happen At Sea

Costa Concordia from Porta Isola del Giglio, off which she lay. Credit: imageBroker/Alamy/FC2A4P

Painting by Charles Dixon of the lost moments of the HMS Birkenhead, with her bow section destroyed, her boats away and her funnel gone by the board. Credit: Alamy/G38A9Y

The Wahine has developed a radical list to starboard. Credit: Jack Short/Evening Post/Alexander Turnbull Library/Ref PAColl 7796-85