""Twelve Hours On The Wreck: Or The Stranding Of The Sheffield"" is a historical non-fiction book written by Benjamin Clarke Cutler in 1844. The book narrates the tragic story of the British merchant ship, Sheffield, which was stranded on the coast of Cornwall in 1818. The author provides a detailed account of the events leading up to the shipwreck, as well as the twelve hours that the crew spent on the wreck before being rescued. Cutler describes...