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The Royal Adelaide

Chesil Beach, Dorset

An emigrant ship wrecked on Chesil, and a drunken free-for-all over its gin.

The Royal Adelaide was carrying emigrants and cargo to Australia when a storm drove her onto Chesil Beach. Most people were brought ashore by rope, but several died.

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When
25 November 1872
Where
50.6000, -2.5300
Group
Shipwrecks

Visiting

Chesil Beach can be walked from Ferrybridge or Abbotsbury. Bathing is dangerous.

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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