“To Obviate a Scandalous Reflection”: Revisiting the Wreck of the Nottingham Galley

The Nottingham Galley, and its captain John Deane, are remembered today for having survived a grim winter wreck and cannibalism on Boon Island, Maine, in 1710. But that episode is only part of a larger, compelling story involving mutiny, politics, class conflict, reputation, and the power of the written and printed word.