Author Lecture: Horrible Shipwreck with Andrew Jampoler
Thomas Balch Library 208 West Market Street, LeesburgOn August 25, 1833, the British convict transport Amphitrite, filled with more than one hundred women prisoners and their children, together with a crew of sixteen, left London for the convict colony in New South Wales. Less than a week later, all but three died when a savage storm battered their ship to pieces on