The Fatal Cup: Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and the strange deaths of his relations

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John Price Williams. The Fatal Cup: Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and the strange deaths of his relations

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THE FATAL CUP

THOMAS GRIFFITHS WAINEWRIGHT AND THE STRANGE DEATHS OF HIS RELATIONS

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It had been a relatively quick passage for a convict ship – 109 days after clearing the Isle of Wight to sail to the other end of the world, to Hobartown, Van Diemen’s Land, later to be renamed Tasmania.

The first part had been easy, with light winds and agreeable time spent on the open deck, but after rounding the Cape into the Roaring Forties, there had been a month of westerly gales and raging seas, according to the account of one who sailed in her.

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