HMS Wager (1739)

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HMS Wager (1739)

HMS Wager was a square-rigged 6th rate Royal Navy
Royal Navy

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British Armed Forces . From the mid-18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s....
ship of 28 guns, previously an East Indiaman, purchased in 1739 and wrecked on the south coast of Chile on 14 May 1741 when she formed part of the squadron of George Anson
George Anson

George Anson may refer to:* George Anson, 1st Baron Anson was a British admiral, noted for his circumnavigation of the globe.* George Anson , British MP for Lichfield, nephew of the above...
, sent into the Pacific by the British Government to attack Spanish interests along the west coast of South America. The wreck of the Wager was to become famous due to the subsequent adventures of the survivors who found themselves initially marooned on a desolate island in the middle of a Patagonian winter, and in particular because of the Wager Mutiny
Wager Mutiny

The Wager Mutiny was the mutiny of the crew of HMS Wager after it was wrecked on a desolate island off the west coast of Chile in 1741. ...
which followed.

The novel The Unknown Shore

The Unknown Shore

The Unknown Shore is a novel published in 1959 in literature by Patrick O'Brian. It is the story of two friends, John Byron and Tobias Barrow who sail aboard HMS Wager as part of George Anson, 1st Baron Anson's 1740 expedition....
(pub.

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HMS Wager was a square-rigged 6th rate Royal Navy
Royal Navy

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British Armed Forces . From the mid-18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s....
ship of 28 guns, previously an East Indiaman, purchased in 1739 and wrecked on the south coast of Chile on 14 May 1741 when she formed part of the squadron of George Anson
George Anson

George Anson may refer to:* George Anson, 1st Baron Anson was a British admiral, noted for his circumnavigation of the globe.* George Anson , British MP for Lichfield, nephew of the above...
, sent into the Pacific by the British Government to attack Spanish interests along the west coast of South America. The wreck of the Wager was to become famous due to the subsequent adventures of the survivors who found themselves initially marooned on a desolate island in the middle of a Patagonian winter, and in particular because of the Wager Mutiny
Wager Mutiny

The Wager Mutiny was the mutiny of the crew of HMS Wager after it was wrecked on a desolate island off the west coast of Chile in 1741. ...
which followed.

The novel The Unknown Shore
The Unknown Shore

The Unknown Shore is a novel published in 1959 in literature by Patrick O'Brian. It is the story of two friends, John Byron and Tobias Barrow who sail aboard HMS Wager as part of George Anson, 1st Baron Anson's 1740 expedition....
(pub. 1959) by Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian, Order of the British Empire was an England novelist and translation, best known for his Aubrey?Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centered on the friendship of English Naval Captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen Maturin....
is based on the accounts of the survivors.

See also

John Byron
John Byron

Vice-Admiral John Byron, Royal Navy was an England vice-admiral. Byron was the sixth child of William Byron, 4th Baron Byron of Rochdale , and the third child William Byron had with his second wife Hon....
, who sailed on the HMS Wager as a midshipman.