Qualla: Wager Mutiny https://qualla.com/wager-mutiny en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Wager Mutiny https://qualla.com/wager-mutiny Wager Mutiny: Introduction https://qualla.com/wager-mutiny/ At half past four in the morning on 14 May 1741, His Majesty's Ship Wager struck rock in the dark and began to die. She had lost her squadron rounding Cape Horn weeks earlier, her crew gutted by scurvy, her rigging hanging in rags. Now she was pinned against an uninhabited island far into the southern latitudes, at the edge of a Chilean winter, with little food and no chance of rescue. Of the roughly 250 men who had sailed from England, fewer than a tenth would ever see it again. What happened on that island - the murder, the mutiny, the impossible journeys home - became one of the most extraordinary survival stories in naval history, retold in our own century by David Grann in his 2023 book The Wager.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/4/r/d/8/wager-mutiny-wp/4rd8-wager-mutiny-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wager Mutiny: The Doomed Squadron https://qualla.com/wager-mutiny/ Wager was a converted East Indiaman, bought by the Admiralty in 1739 to join Commodore George Anson's squadron raiding Spanish ports on the Pacific coast of South America. She carried the expedition's siege guns and ammunition - which made her indispensable, and made her captain ...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/4/r/d/8/wager-mutiny-wp/4rd8-wager-mutiny-the-doomed-squadron.mp3 0:06 2 full Wager Mutiny: The Wreck https://qualla.com/wager-mutiny/ Alone and barely crewed, Wager argued with herself over where to turn north. Her captain, David Cheap - a brave and capable seaman, but rigid and quick to rage, and commanding a large ship for the first time - held his course toward the mainland. The gunner, John Bulkeley, the mo...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/4/r/d/8/wager-mutiny-wp/4rd8-wager-mutiny-the-wreck.mp3 0:06 3 full Wager Mutiny: Murder and Mutiny https://qualla.com/wager-mutiny/ On the island, authority dissolved along with the ship. The survivors were freezing, starving, and bitterly divided, many blaming Cheap for everything. Tensions broke when the captain, hearing a commotion outside his tent, emerged in a fury and shot a young midshipman named Henry...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/4/r/d/8/wager-mutiny-wp/4rd8-wager-mutiny-murder-and-mutiny.mp3 0:06 4 full Wager Mutiny: The Long Way Home https://qualla.com/wager-mutiny/ On 13 October 1741, the schooner Speedwell sailed with most of the men crammed aboard. Cheap chose to stay behind. The voyage that followed was a slow horror of starvation: men died in the open boat day after day, some begged to be put ashore on the desolate coast rather than con...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/4/r/d/8/wager-mutiny-wp/4rd8-wager-mutiny-the-long-way-home.mp3 0:06 5 full Wager Mutiny: The Reckoning https://qualla.com/wager-mutiny/ The astonishing twist was that nearly everyone presumed dead came back to contradict everyone else. Bulkeley reached England in 1743 and published his journal; some thought he should hang. Cheap arrived two years later, with his own version. Men abandoned on hostile coasts clawed...

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