The passage of the damned
Subtitle: what happened to the men and women of the Lady Shore mutiny
By: Elsbeth Hardie
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd
Published: 2019
Place of publication: North Melbourne, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781925801651
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: History; Penal colonies; Women prisoners; Mutiny; English
Description: In an extraordinary move, in 1797, the British government pressed a small group of French and German prisoners of war into the New South Wales Corps, gave them firearms and placed them as guards on a ship carrying sixty-six convict women and two convict men to New South Wales. The result was a mutiny some months into the voyage in which the captain of the Lady Shore was killed and the fates of all those on board were tied together when the ship was taken to South America. The true story of what happened to those on board is told here in detail for the first time, in part through the eyes of sailor George Drinkald whose fascinating and articulate first-hand testimony has recently emerged. -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.