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New Book Tells Story of Survivors of 1741 Shipwreck
The story of those who survived the wreck of the HMS Wager in 1741 has been brought to life in a new book - The Wager Disaster.
The wreck of the Royal Navy ship was rediscovered 265 years after hurricane force winds drove her onto the rocks of an uninhabited island off the coast of what is now Chilean Patagonia in 1741.
Mutiny and an incredible feat of navigation would see just 36 of the ship's company of 140 survive - and the book tells their story in their own words.
Sally Lockwood was joined by the book's author - Rear Admiral Kit Layman - in the Forces TV studio.
They started with an account from Midshipman John Byron in the immediate moments after the ship's fate was sealed.
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