Friday, October 13, 2023
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together
wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty
emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell.
They were survivors of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager, a British vessel
that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war
with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled
galleon known as “the prize of all the oceans,” it had wrecked on a
desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being
marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and
sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of
storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.
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