Editing Wrecking (shipwreck) (section)

==Fictional accounts==
Wreckers have been featured in a number of works of fiction, including a references in ''[[The Shipping News]]'' by [[E. Annie Proulx]], ''[[Jamaica Inn (novel)|Jamaica Inn]]'' by [[Daphne du Maurier]], ''Shipwrecks'' by  [[Akira Yoshimura]], the film ''[[The Light at the Edge of the World]]'' based on the novel ''[[The Lighthouse at the End of the World|Le Phare du bout du monde]]'' by [[Jules Verne]], and also in the opening chapter of Verne's ''[[The Archipelago on Fire]]''.

The plot of [[Compton Mackenzie]]'s novel [[Whisky Galore (novel)|''Whisky Galore'']] revolves around the inhabitants of a small Scottish island recovering as-yet-untaxed whisky from a shipwreck and their subsequent efforts at evading government officials.

Dame [[Ethel Smyth]]'s opera, [[The Wreckers (opera)|''The Wreckers'']], is set in Cornwall—the plot revolves around deliberate wrecking.

In 1942, the [[Technicolor]] Movie ''[[Reap The Wild Wind]] '' by [[Cecil B. DeMille]] depicted life in the wrecking business in the Nineteenth Century around [[Key West, Florida]]. It garnered an [[Academy Award]] for underwater [[Special effects|Special Effects]].<ref>IMDb.com</ref>

In 1962, the ''[[Walt Disney anthology television series|Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color]]'' TV series aired a two-episode live action adventure film entitled ''The Mooncussers'' about the investigation and exposure of a gang of wreckers.

[[Enid Blyton]], specifically in the ''[[The Famous Five (novel series)|Famous Five]]'' books, writes often about the treasures of the wreckers.

''[[The Wreckers]]'', by Iain Lawrence, is a book for younger readers about ''The Isle of Skye'' (a London vessel) being shipwrecked along the shores of Pendennis, Cornwall.

Canadian [[progressive rock]] band [[Rush (band)|Rush]] included a song on their 2012 album ''[[Clockwork Angels]]'' titled "The Wreckers", the lyrics of which were inspired by historical tales of wreckers luring ships to their demise.

''[[Crimson Shore]]'' is part of the Agent Pendergast series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.  The main story involves a ship, the ''Pembroke Castle'', being purposefully wrecked on the rocks off the coast of Massachusetts.

''[[Coot Club]]'', the fifth of [[Arthur Ransome]]'s [[Swallows and Amazons series|Swallows and Amazons]] series of books, features wreckers on the [[The Broads|Norfolk Broads]].

''[[The Wreck of the Zanzibar]]'' is a [[Whitbread Award]]-winning children's novel by [[Michael Morpurgo]], set on the [[Isles of Scilly]].

''[[H.M.S. Dolores]]'' is a 2016 board game whose plot centers around rival crews of wreckers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.asmodee.us/en/games/hms-dolores/|title=HMS Dolores|access-date=6 April 2017}}</ref>

Canadian folk singer [[Stan Rogers]] would sing of wrecking in the song The Wreck of the Athens Queen,<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Wreck of the Athens Queen {{!}} Fogarty's Cove Music |url=https://stanrogers.net/the-music/song-archive/the-wreck-of-the-athens-queen/ |access-date=2022-08-10 |language=en-US}}</ref> whose subjects "eat a lot of chicken and sit on a couch of green".