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The Adelaar

Greian Head, Isle of Barra

A Dutch treasure ship lost with all hands on Barra.

The Adelaar was a ship of the Dutch East India Company, heading for the East Indies with silver and gold coins. A storm drove her onto the rocks of Barra, and all 220 people on board died.

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When
1728
Where
56.9850, -7.5200
Group
Shipwrecks

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Greian Head is on the north-west of Barra, near the airport beach.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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