Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

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PREFACE

ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN WOODWARD AND FIVE SEAMEN IN THE ISLAND OF CELEBES

AN OCCURRENCE AT SEA

ACCOUNT OF THE LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP PHŒNIX

AN ACCOUNT OF THE WHALE FISHERY

WITH ANECDOTES OF THE DANGERS ATTENDING IT

LOSS OF THE BRIG TYRREL

THE LOSS OF THE PEGGY

LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP LITCHFIELD

WRECK OF THE ROTHSAY CASTLE STEAMER

SHIPWRECK OF THE FRENCH SHIP DROITS DE L’HOMME

THE LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP, QUEEN CHARLOTTE

A SCENE ON THE ATLANTIC OCEAN

SHIPWRECK OF THE FRENCH FRIGATE MEDUSA

THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE

LOSS OF THE ÆNEAS TRANSPORT

THE ABSENT SHIP

LOSS OF THE HALSEWELL

AN ACCOUNT OF FOUR RUSSIAN SAILORS,

ABANDONED ON THE ISLAND OF EAST SPITZBERGEN

LOSS OF THE AMPHITRITE CONVICT SHIP

THE MUTINEERS, A TALE OF THE SEA

FATE OF SEVEN SAILORS,

WHO WERE LEFT ON THE ISLAND OF ST. MAURICE

SEAMEN WINTERING IN SPITZBERGEN

A MAN OVERBOARD

AN ESCAPE THROUGH THE CABIN-WINDOWS

TOM CRINGLE’S LOG

LOSS OF THE NAUTILUS, SLOOP OF WAR,

ON A ROCK IN THE ARCHIPELAGO

WRECK OF A SLAVE SHIP

THE WRECKED SEAMEN

ADVENTURES OF PHILIP ASHTON,

WHO, AFTER ESCAPING FROM PIRATES, LIVED SIXTEEN MONTHS IN SOLITUDE ON A DESOLATE ISLAND

EXPLOSION OF HIS B. MAJESTY’S SHIP AMPHION

LOSS OF H. B. M. SHIP LA TRIBUNE,

OFF HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA

BURNING OF THE PRINCE,

A FRENCH EAST INDIAMAN

WRECK OF THE SCHOONER BETSEY,

ON A REEF OF ROCKS

EARLY AMERICAN HEROISM

FINGAL’S CAVE

THE LOSS OF THE RAMILLIES,

IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN

PRESERVATION OF NINE MEN,

IN A SMALL BOAT, SURROUNDED BY ISLANDS OF ICE

CAPTAIN ROSS’S EXPEDITION

LOSS OF THE CATHARINE, VENUS AND PIEDMONT TRANSPORTS; AND THREE MERCHANT SHIPS

WRECK OF THE BRITISH SHIP SIDNEY,

ON A REEF OF ROCKS IN THE SOUTH SEA

LOSS OF THE DUKE WILLIAM TRANSPORT

COMMODORE BARNEY

NAVAL BATTLES

OF THE UNITED STATES

CRUISE OF THE WASP

HORNET AND PENGUIN

ALGERINE WAR

ADDRESS TO THE OCEAN

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In the year 1791, Woodward sailed from Boston in the ship Robert Morris, Captain Hay, for the East Indies. On his arrival there he was employed in making country voyages until the 20th of January, when he sailed as chief-mate in an American ship from Batavia bound to Manilla.

In passing through the straits of Macassar, they found the wind and current both against them, and after beating up for six weeks they fell short of provision. Captain Woodward and five seamen were sent to purchase some from a vessel about four leagues distant. They were without water, provisions, or compass,—having on board only an axe, a boat hook, two penknives, a useless gun and forty dollars in cash.

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They landed at Macassar on the 15th of June 1795, after a voyage of about nineteen days from Tomboo, and after having been two years and five months in captivity; the reckoning which Captain Woodward kept during that time, being wrong only one day.

I now thought there was no probability of the ship’s soon going to pieces, therefore had not a thought of instant death: took a look round with a kind of philosophic eye, to see how the same situation affected my companions, and was surprised to find the most swaggering, swearing bullies in fine weather, now the most pitiful wretches on earth, when death appeared before them. However, two got safe; by which means, with a line, we got a hawser on shore, and made fast to the rocks, upon which many ventured and arrived safe. There were some sick and wounded on board, who could not avail themselves of this method; we, therefore, got a spare top-sail-yard from the chains and placed one end ashore and the other on the cabin-window, so that most of the sick got ashore this way.

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