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Image of The Capture of the Frederick (Macquarie Harbour 1834)
Author James Porter
Binding Hardback
Edition Limited
Condition BRAND NEW. Some slight markings on dust jacket book itself very good condition. All copies for sale from publisher seemed to have suffered some sun damage on dust jacket spine due to the ink used in the production. Limited Edition of 375 of 375
Item Status Available and copy In Stock (but currently Out Of Print)
Publisher Sullivan's Cove
Release Date 01 Jan 1981
Price
$75.00
Weight 0.575kg
ISBN BWBK0131

Account of the capture of a ship and subsequent escape by convicts in Tasmania, 1834. From the narrative of Porter, one of the convict pirates, first published anonymously in the Hobart Town Almanack 1838, with official records of the affair.

In 1834, the colonial administration in Van Diemen's Land closed the notorious penal island Sarah Island, with the aim to move convicts to the new prison station which had been established at Port Arthur.

In a calculated and audacious bid for freedom, the ten remaining convicts on the island, including the wily and literate James Porter, commandeered the ship the Frederick, a vessel that the men themselves had built and, knowing what lay in store for them at Port Arthur, made their escape on the open seas.

The story of their escape and recapture is the basis of the book, "The Men That God Forgot" and the play "The Ship That Never Was"