Beyond the Breakers
Beyond The Breakers is a podcast about shipwrecks, loss, and lessons learned from maritime disasters.
Beyond the Breakers
Episode 152.2 - "An Innocent Child of Nature": The Globe Mutiny, Part II
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Here we conclude the main story of the mutiny on the whaleship Globe where everyone lives happily ever after in a tropical paradise. Or something like that.
*meant to cut in a minor edit for this episode - George Comstock was 15 by the time the Globe sailed, and Samuel was 20
Sources:
Couper, Alastair. “Dangers, Mutinies, and the Law.” Sailors and Traders: A Maritime History of the Pacific Peoples.” University of Hawai’i Press
Gibson, Gregory. Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe. Little, Brown, and Company, 2002.
Heffernan, Thomas Farel. The Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock. Norton, 2002.
Hoyt, Edwin P. The Mutiny on the Globe. Random House, 1975.
Woodman, Richard. A Brief History of Mutiny. Carroll & Graf, 2005.
