Mutiny on the Ariel

In 1845 the trading schooner Ariel was seized off the coast of China while carrying a valuable cargo worth millions of dollars in today’s money.   This act of piracy was unusual because it was not carried out by a band of desperate cutthroats but by two of the ship’s own officers. The schooner Ariel wasContinue reading “Mutiny on the Ariel”

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