HMS Wager (1739)

HMS Wager (1739)

HMS "Wager" was a square-rigged 6th rate Royal Navy 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, 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 which followed.

The novel "The Unknown Shore" (pub. 1959) by Patrick O'Brian is based on the accounts of the survivors.

See also

* John Byron, who sailed on the "HMS Wager" as a midshipman.

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