Why the Wartime Rescue of the Survivors of a British Shipwreck Ended in Betrayal

Eric Jay Dolin Author, Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery and Survival at the Edge of the World On the unseasonably hot Friday morning of December 4, 1812, the 193-ton brig Isabella prepared to depart from Port Jackson Harbor in the British convict colony of New South Wales, in what is now Australia. The vessel’s ultimate destination was London, via Cape Horn. Among the 54 people on board were the brig’s…