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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
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On May 5, 1974, author and journalist Arthur Koestler published a letter from reader Nigel Parker in The Sunday Times of a striking coincidence between a scene in Poe's novel and an actual event that happened decades later: [103] In 1884, the yacht Mignonette sank, with four men cast adrift. After weeks without food, they decided that one of ...
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