Wagera10 Full Hms Wager

Wagera10 Full Hms Wager Wagera10 full. april 16, 2014 1200 × 863 the ship. sailors on board hms wager, at speed, watching depth charge explosions astern (c.1945) next image. Majesty’s ship (hms) wager. on a rendezvous with disaster. 3. grann’s account of the struggles suffered at the end . of the world by the crew of hms . wager. is full of pow erful lessons that can inform the actions of the modern military leader. the wager. exemplifies the core leader ship lessons found in army publishing doctrine (adp) 6 22,.

Wager Full Hms Wager For the hms wager, a doomed voyage around the world began as a difficult journey and turned into a hellish one, marked by disease, shipwreck, hunger, mutiny, desperation, murder, and even cannibalism. the year was 1741, britain and spain were at war, and the wager was part of a group of british warships that were ordered to “annoy and. Wagera11 full april 16, 2014 1200 × 865 the ship the open bridge of hms wager, with the bearded captain, lt cdr r c (‘basher’) watkin rn, in the centre (july 1945). In 1741, the british warship hms wager crashed on the shore of an uninhabited island off the coast of chilean patagonia. one hundred and forty men reached land. only thirty six made it back home. the "wager" disaster is the extraordinary story of human endurance and the perseverance of those soldiers in the face of unthinkable adversity. Hms wager was a square rigged sixth rate royal navy ship of 28 guns. she was built as an east indiaman in about 1734 and made two voyages to india for the east india company before the royal navy purchased her in 1739. she was an armed trading vessel, built to accommodate large cargoes of goods from the far east.