Criminal

Shipwrecked

May 26, 2023

38:29

Creator website

Episode guests

David Grann

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

The Power and Peril of the Seas around Cape Horn

01:22

"Dead reckoning" and the perils of miscalculated longitude

01:49

Introduction

2min

The Story of the Pirates of Cape Horn

2min

The Struggle to Become a Captain

3min

The Scurvy of Cape Horn

2min

The War on Cape Horn

3min

The Gulf of Pain

3min

The Adventures of Captain Cheep

2min

The Rise and Fall of Captain Cheep

2min

The Trials of Captain Cheep

2min

10.

The End of Captain Cheep's Authority

2min

11.

The Castaway Boat

2min

12.

John Bulkley and the Speedwell

2min

13.

John Bulkley's Story of the Wager

2min

14.

The Death of Captain Cheep

2min

15.

The Disastrous Wager Fair

4min

16.

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

2min

There’s an old sailors’ saying about the ocean at the southernmost part of the world — “below 40 degrees latitude, there is no law; below 50 degrees, there is no God.”

David Grann brings us the story of what happened when five British warships set off on a secret mission to steal a ship filled with treasure. They’d have to sail around the very bottom of South America — at 56 degrees south.

David Grann’s book is The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder.

Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow.

Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast.

We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery.

Artwork by Julienne Alexander.

Episode transcripts are posted on our website.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices