02087nam 2200433 450 991015508140332120201008134759.01-4738-5827-51-4738-5826-7(CKB)3710000000973329(MiAaPQ)EBC4769602(EXLCZ)99371000000097332920161227h20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe lost story of the William and Mary the cowardice of captain Stinson /Gill HoffsBarnsley, [England] :Pen & Sword History,2016.©20161 online resource (147 pages) illustrations1-4738-5824-0 Includes bibliographical references.The emigrant ship William and Mary departed from Liverpool with 208 British, Irish, and Dutch emigrants in early 1853. Captained by young American Timothy Stinson, the vessel was sailing for New Orleans when the ship wrecked in the Bahamas in mysterious circumstances. Instead of grounding the ship on a nearby shore or building rafts for the passengers, Stinson and the majority of his crew sneaked away in lifeboats - murdering at least two of the emigrants with a hatchet as they did so - and reported the ship sunk with all on board lost. But the passengers kept the ship afloat and two days later were rescued by heroic wreckers as the ship went down. Now, over 160 years on, the tale of the two murdered in Bahamian waters and the hundreds who escaped thanks to kindly wreckers can finally be told. Stinson is no longer getting away with murder.ShipwrecksBahamasAtlantic OceanfastArctic OceanfastBahamasfastShipwrecks910.916363Hoffs Gill1371616MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910155081403321The lost story of the William and Mary3401089UNINA