Two accounts of terrible shipwreck and the struggle for survival
The wreck of the Medusa is one of the most famous and infamous
shipwrecks from the great age of sailing ships. The Medusa was a
French frigate which struck the Bank of Arguin, off the coast of
Senegal in 1816 shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The
vessel had to be abandoned and this was undertaken with such
complete incompetence by the officers and crew that it resulted in
the loss of over 150 lives in such appalling circumstances that it
scandalised the general public of Europe and became an incurable
embarrassment for the French government of the day. The event was
even immortalised by a great artist of the period, and Gericault's
'Raft of the Medusa' endures to ensure it still remains widely
known in all its horror two centuries later. The outrage of the
Medusa gained particular notoriety because several of the survivors
wrote harrowing accounts of their experiences of the events that
took place. Two of these first hand narratives are included in this
Leonaur edition making it a fascinating book for all those with an
interest in sailing ships, voyages of times past and the perils of
the sea.
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