The short answer to your question is that I know of no book specifically devoted to he disaster – and perhaps that's not too surprising; the only information that we have about it comes from several brief chroniclers' accounts (notably those of Eadmer, Orderic Vitalis, William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon, each less than two pages long), and the ramifications, while very important, are relatively straightforward to trace.

Probably the most complete account you're going to find of the latter come in Warren Hollister's Yale bio of Henry I (pp.276-82, 458-60 in my 2001 paperback edition). Hollister gives excerpts from the 300-strong passenger list (an eminent one), which included

• Henry I's sons, William Adelin (his heir and only legitimate son) and Richard of Lincoln (who was a bastard)
• Matilda of Perche, Henry's illegitimate daughter
• Richard, earl of Chester, and his wife, another of the very many Matildas of the day
• A noted contemporary military hero, Ralph the Red of Pont-Echanfray

The most important person not to board was Stephen of Blois, the future King Stephen, whose succession to the English throne 15 years later was in large part a product of the death of William Adelin, which left Henry with only one legitimate child, a daughter, the Empress Matilda (never to be confused, of course, with Stephen's wife Matilda of Boulogne). Stephen was due to cross on the ship but came down with a stomach complaint before it left port; Hollister comments that "his diarrhoea probably determined the history of England between 1135 and 1154."

Other consequences of "the most catastrophic maritime disaster of the Middle ages" noted by Hollister were:

• The collapse of Henrys carefully negotiated peace in Anjou, where he had been fighting since 1116; this had depended on a planned marriage between William Adelin and Matilda (yes, another one) of Anjou which did not now take place
• Henry's remarriage to Adeliza, daughter of Geoffrey the Bearded of Louvain
• Welsh incursions over the border into the Palatinate of Chester, undertaken when they heard of the death of Earl Richard, and a successful counter-attack led in person by the king
• The foundation of Reading Abbey in 1121, which Henry endowed with enough lands to make it comparable to his father's foundation of Battle Abbey, together with "immunities and liberties of unsurpassed scope" – its own mint and the right to hold a four-day annual fair among them

Hollister goes further, though, in suggesting that the disaster prompted in Henry the works of "his most serious and productive years", which included the administrative reforms that began to produce the famous pipe rolls – royal accounts that offer us unparalleled insights into the finances of England from 1130.