Titlebook: Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our Depth; Michael Titlestad Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licen

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Captain of a Shipwreck: The Wreck of the , (1741)She was to function as a fighting supply ship on an ambitious expedition under Commodore George Anson, to attack Spanish strongholds along the east coast of South America and capture a treasure galleon. On the 14 May 1741, the . contumaciously drifted up the Golfo de Pe?as and, despite the crew’s de

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The Limits of the Law: The Wreck of the , (1791)th Africa), the seven-year-old Master Law finally succumbed. Of the 109 crew and passengers who lost their lives during and after the wreck, it was Law’s death that captured the public imagination. This essay considers the events of the wreck, focussing on the schisms that developed among the surviv

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Remembering William Mackay: The Wreck of the , (1795)ying workers who leapt from log to log. She struck a sandbank on her first day out, but the crew adjudged that the damage was not serious. But, despite caulking the affected section of the hull and pumping continually, she began to take on excessive amounts of water. Quite bizarrely, the ., buoyed u

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The Cannibals and the Butterfly: The Wreck of the , (1816)—and set sail for the French colony of Senegal. She was captained by the commander of the expedition, Hugues Douroy de Chaumareys. Only twelve leagues from the west coast of Africa, she struck a sandbank. While the officers and aristocrats took to the boats, 141 men were consigned to a hastily const

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King Baba’s Largesse: The Wreck of the , (1792)re dangerous route to Kolkata. After she struck a coral reef off Madagascar, many of the . crew and passengers were either drowned or ripped to pieces by the coral. Yet, a large group of survivors found their way to ‘Tullear’ (Toliara), where ‘King Baba’ (perhaps ‘Babaw’) extended remarkable hospita

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James F. Cobb and Daphne du Maurier in Cornwalltruggling survivors for their possessions has been the stuff of didactic religious tracts and romances. This chapter considers two works, James Cobb’s Methodist didactic novel, . (1878), and the second, Daphne du Maurier’s widely read and influential . (1936). What is most intriguing about these nov

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Stephen Crane and James Hanley’s Open Boatsl questions: how one contrives meaning, why one should bother to survive at all, and how you should relate to your fellow castaways. Stephen Crane lauds cooperation and empathy, as if this can—even if only partially—ward off the inordinate threat of an indifferent universe. James Hanley, whose high-

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John Steinbeck’s ‘Lifeboat’: An Unfinished Journeypartment at Twentieth Century Fox in 1975. Steinbeck began work on the ‘novelette’ (as he referred to it) in 1942, and when, in 1943, Kenneth McGowan from Fox approached him with a request from the Maritime Commission to write a script for a propaganda film, he salvaged it. ‘Lifeboat’ is neither a f

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