Wreck, Scandal & Mutiny on HMS Wager
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Attila Shipwreck Mutiny and Murder
Most of them on the board didn't know how to swim and they had originally a small little transport boat but eventually they lose their tiny little transport so they don't have a way to kind of row ashore. It's very challenging for them to stop without wrecking their castaway boat that they had built when they can they try on occasion to try to anchor nearby and see if they can get some people ashore That leads to great travails into itself where sometimes people would be abandoned because they couldn't get back to the ship so they do occasionally stop but it's very infrequent and many of them do starve. One interesting thing happened which I didn't know about you may be familiar with
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