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The vessel could at decent cost be transported to Australia by sailing, but its size and the 15,000-mile (24,000-km) voyage daunted attempts that year to find a suitable crew. It left Southampton on 19 May 1884 bound for Sydney with a crew of: Captain Dudley, commander of the Mignonette. Tom Dudley (1853–1900), [6] the captain;
Accused were two crew members of an English yacht, the Mignonette, who in 1884 were shipwrecked in a storm some 1,600 miles from the Cape of Good Hope. After a few weeks adrift in a lifeboat, 17-year-old Richard Parker fell unconscious due to a combination of hunger and drinking seawater. Two of the three others on the boat decided to kill and ...
Mignonette (yacht), built 1867, shipwrecked in 1884; cannibalism as a necessity defence for murdering crewmember Richard Parker was struck down by R v Dudley and Stephens to set an enduring legal precedent; HMS Mignonette, more than one ship of the British Royal Navy; USS Mignonette (1861), a steam operated tugboat
A vast and eccentric collection of everything from vintage Rolls-Royces to an entire house relocated from Syria, the Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum is worth a trip into the deserts of Qatar.
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Made by steeping fresh or dried ginger in hot water, ginger tea is caffeine-free like other herbal teas. Health benefits: Few studies have examined the effects of ginger tea specifically, ...
USS Mignonette was a steam operated tugboat acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first Black female principal in NYC.