Cayman's 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail
The University of Alabama Press (Verlag)
978-0-8173-2045-4 (ISBN)
The greatest shipwreck disaster in the history of the Cayman Islands.
The story has been passed through generations for over two centuries. Details vary depending on who is doing the telling, but all refer to this momentous maritime event as the Wreck of the Ten Sail. Sometimes misunderstood as the loss of a single ship, it was in fact the wreck of ten vessels at once, comprising one of the most dramatic maritime disasters in all of Caribbean naval history. Surviving historical documents and the remains of the wrecked ships in the sea confirm that the narrative is more than folklore. It is a legend based on a historical event in which HMS Convert, formerly L'Inconstante, a recent prize from the French, and 9 of her 58-ship merchant convoy sailing from Jamaica to Britain, wrecked on the jagged eastern reefs of Grand Cayman in 1794.
The incident has historical significance far beyond the boundaries of the Cayman Islands. It is tied to British and French history during the French Revolution, when these and other European nations were competing for military and commercial dominance around the globe. The Wreck of the Ten Sail attests to the worldwide distribution of European war and trade at the close of the eighteenth century.
In Cayman's 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail: Peace, War, and Peril in the Caribbean, Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton focuses on the ships, the people, and the wreck itself to define their place in Caymanian, Caribbean, and European history. This well-researched volume weaves together rich oral folklore accounts, invaluable supporting documents found in archives in the United Kingdom, Jamaica, and France, and tangible evidence of the disaster from archaeological sites on the reefs of the East End.
Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton is director of the Cayman Islands National Museum. She coedited Underwater and Maritime Archaeology in Latin America and the Caribbean and contributed to the Oxford Handbook of Underwater Archaeology, Caribbean Heritage, the Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, and the Encyclopedia of Caribbean Archaeology.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Ship Ashore! Lost, but Not Forgotten
Chapter 2. Hazard, Landmark, Food: A Hidden Mountain
Chapter 3. L'Inconstante: A Place in the Navy
Chapter 4. France's Saint-Domingue Campaign: The Best and the Worst of Times
Chapter 5. The Prize: A Ship by Another Name
Chapter 6. Great Britain's Convert Convoy: Duty versus Profit
Chapter 7. The Wreck of the Ten Sail: Breakers Ahead, Close to Us!
Chapter 8. What Remains: Links to the Past
Conclusion
Appendix A. Inventory of L'Inconstante
Appendix B. Condemnation of L'Inconstante
Appendix C. Biographical Sketch of John Lawford
Appendix D. Data from the Muster Table of HMS Convert
Appendix E. Ships in the Convert Convoy, 1794
Appendix F. Salvage Account of HMS Convert
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.12.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Maritime Currents: History and Archaeology |
| Zusatzinfo | 45 black & white figures, 14 maps |
| Verlagsort | Alabama |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 626 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8173-2045-8 / 0817320458 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8173-2045-4 / 9780817320454 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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