Mutiny or Murder? : The Bloodsoaked Voyage of the Chapman Convict Ship

Mutiny or Murder? : The Bloodsoaked Voyage of the Chapman Convict Ship

Conor Reidy

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FörlagTHP Ireland
ISBN9780750988827

On 15 March 1817 the convict ship the Chapman departed from Cork with 200 male prisoners on board. When it dropped anchor off Sydney Cove four months later, its prison doors opened to reveal 160 gaunt and brutalised men. Twelve were dead and twenty-eight lay wounded in the hospital below deck. As of