![]() ![]() Most of the mutineers either died or were abandoned on shore during the journey, but the survivors eventually returned to England. The main body of the crew mutinied against their captain, David Cheap, abandoned him and a group of loyal crew members on the island, and set off in a modified schooner (named Speedwell) via the Strait of Magellan to Portuguese administered Rio de Janeiro. ![]() She lost contact with the squadron while rounding Cape Horn, ran aground during a storm and wrecked on what would become known as Wager Island. Wager was part of a naval squadron bound to attack Spanish interests in the Pacific. The Wager Mutiny took place in 1741, after the British warship HMS Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the south coast of present-day Chile. The Wreck of the Wager, the frontispiece from John Byron's account ![]()
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