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A brutal sea captain, an inhuman chief mate, and an indignant crew set out to sea together--an obvious equation for disaster. This is the gripping tale of the voyage of the Grosvenor of the British Mercantile Marine, and of Mr. Royle, the mild second mate who rises to the... Read Full Overview

"The Wreck of the 'Grosvenor' " tells of the adventures of Edward Royle, the second mate on a sailing ship travelling from England to South America in the nineteenth century. With a hard-hearted captain and a mutinous crew, this was never going to be an easy voyage. When Royle... Read Full Overview

There were three or four dozen vessels at anchor in the Downs waiting for a change of wind or anticipating a dead calm for some hours. A few others, like ourselves, were swimming stealthily over the slack tide, with every foot of their canvas4 piled upon them with the effort... Read Full Overview

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The neat ship Grosvenor is fully laden and crewed, and slowly traversing the English Channel, ready to leave on a trading journey to the other side of the Atlantic. Edward Royle has joined as second mate, new to the ship. As they make headway there are rumblings among the... Read Full Overview

The Wreck of the Grosvenor is a non-fiction book written by William Clark Russell, detailing the tragic tale of the Grosvenor shipwreck. The book recounts the story of the Grosvenor, a British East Indiaman that was on its way to India in 1782 when it hit a reef off the coast... Read Full Overview

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for... Read Full Overview