Wreck of the Isabella

Wreck of the Isabella

Author: David Miller

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 1995-07-01

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0850524563

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The story of the wreck of the British merchant brig Isabella on the Falkland Islands in 1812, the rescue of whose passengers was complicated by the outbreak of war between Britain and the United States, telling of the adventures which befell citizens of both countries before the passengers were restored to their native shore.


Wreck of the Isabella

Wreck of the Isabella

Author: David Miller

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 1995-07-01

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1473820944

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The story of the wreck of the British merchant brig Isabella on the Falkland Islands in 1812, the rescue of whose passengers was complicated by the outbreak of war between Britain and the United States, telling of the adventures which befell citizens of both countries before the passengers were restored to their native shore.


The Wreck of the Isabella

The Wreck of the Isabella

Author: David M. O. Miller

Publisher: Naval Inst Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 9781557507686

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Naval actions during the Napoleonic Wars continue to excite a wide readership in many countries, but virtually all those books relate the deeds of admirals and captains, and tell the stories of fleets rather than individual ships. This story is different because, not only is it absolutely true, but it concerns a group of ordinary men, women and children who found themselves involved in an episode which was quite out of the ordinary. It began when one ship was wrecked on the remote and (at that time) totally deserted Falkland Islands due to the incompetence of its drunken master. Then two ships came to the rescue of the castaways, one British and one American, a situation which was complicated by the outbreak of the War of 1812 between the two countries. The adventures that befell the people of those three ships contains a greater mix of high courage and base cowardice, honesty and skulduggery, good luck and misfortune, and surprising twists than any novelist would dare to include in one book.


The Treasure Ship of St Isabella

The Treasure Ship of St Isabella

Author: Frank Pedersen

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780170217637

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Jennifer's father is a geologist and diver who specialises in making underwater maps of the Caribbean Sea for an oil exploration company. However, when he notices some anomalies that cannot be explained, he decides to head beneath the waves once more. But the ancient wreck on the sea floor is not about to give up its secrets easily ' and rushing to save it could have deadly consequences.


Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

Author: Eric Jay Dolin

Publisher: Liveright Publishing

Published: 2024-05-07

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1324093099

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The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812—a tale of treachery, shipwreck, isolation, and the desperate struggle for survival. In Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin—“one of today’s finest writers about ships and the sea” (American Heritage)—tells the true story of a wild and fateful encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig, and a British warship in the Falkland archipelago during the War of 1812. Fraught with misunderstandings and mistrust, the incident left three British sailors and two Americans, including the captain of the sealer, Charles H. Barnard, abandoned in the barren, windswept, and inhospitable Falklands for a year and a half. With deft narrative skill and unequaled knowledge of the very pith of the seafaring life, Dolin describes in vivid and harrowing detail the increasingly desperate existence of the castaways during their eighteen-month ordeal—an all-too-common fate in the Great Age of Sail. A tale of intriguing complexity, with surprising twists and turns throughout—involving greed, lying, bullying, a hostile takeover, stellar leadership, ingenuity, severe privation, endurance, banishment, the great value of a dog, the birth of a baby, a perilous thousand-mile open-ocean journey in a seventeen-foot boat, an improbable rescue mission, and legal battles over a dubious and disgraceful wartime prize—Left for Dead shows individuals in wartime under great duress acting both nobly and atrociously, and offers a unique perspective on a pivotal era in American maritime history.