Three Sheets to the Wind Courtenay Adam
How a motley crew of merchant seamen walked 500 miles to save 7000 gallons of rumBy the bestselling author of The Ship That Never WasWhen Campbell & Clark, Scottish merchants based in India,…
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How a motley crew of merchant seamen walked 500 miles to save 7000 gallons of rumBy the bestselling author of The Ship That Never WasWhen Campbell & Clark, Scottish merchants based in India, dispatched an Indian ship hurriedly renamed the Sydney Cove to the colony of NSW in 1797, they were hoping to make their fortune. The ship's 'speculative' cargo included all kinds of products to entice the new colony's inhabitants, including 7000 gallons of rum intended to be sold to the Rum Corp, which ruled the fledgling colony with an iron grip, despite the arrival of Governor John Hunter. But when the ship went down north of Van Diemen's Land, cargo master William Clark and 16 other crew members decided to walk the 600 miles to Sydney Town to get help and rescue crew and cargo. Clark and just two others made it,
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Three to See the King
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