A horrific nightmare and one unbelievable survival. In Liverpool, England, 1856, Captain Alexander Kelley manned a sailship bound for New York with over 100 passengers, mostly Irish immigrants searching for a better life in North America. Passenger, Thomas W. Nye, is among them and what he shares of his harrowing tale is not for the faint of heart. This is the story of the John Rutledge.
References:
Murphy, B. (2018). Adrift: A true story of tragedy on the icy Atlantic and the one who lived to tell about it. Da Capo Press.
Learn about the Great Hunger at Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum. (n.d.). https://www.ighm.org/learn.html#:~:text=Thus%2C%20close%20to%203%20million,million%20people%20had%20left%20Ireland
Warner, D. (2018, December 3). In the Pages of Sea History 165. National Maritime Historical Society. https://seahistory.org/in-the-pages-of-sea-history-165/
Destruction of the packet-ship John Rutledge by an iceburg, Feb. 20, 1856 The only survivor, Thomas W. Nye, of New Bedford [with others in lifeboat]. (n.d.). The Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3b22407/?st=image
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