September 7th, 1736: night time. After weeks of plotting, the crew of a British merchant ship anchored in an Italian harbour have murdered their captain and seized his ship for themselves. But the mutineers failed to kill the captain’s cabin boy, who jumped overboard and swam to a nearby ship to raise the alarm. Will the Dove mutineers make it out to the open sea and fulfil their ambitions of becoming pirates? Or have their mistakes insured their downfall? This is the third and final episode of the grisly true story of mutiny and murder aboard the Dove Brigantine.
A transcript of the proceedings of the Old Bailey, 24th February 1737, is available to read on the Old Bailey Online. Trial reference: t17370224-2.
Articles on the Dove mutiny from 1736 and 1737 from the Newcastle Courant, Caledonian Mercury, Stamford Mercury and Derby Mercury accessed on the British Newspaper Archive.
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