The Captain Who Would Not Drown
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A captain jumps into the Atlantic with a wooden hatch. Behind him, two sailors have been killed and his ship has been taken. Mara and Julian follow John Stairs’s extraordinary survival, an escape complicated by insurance and naval service, and a courtroom ending that separates Edward Jordan’s fate from Margaret’s. A real Nova Scotia piracy case from 1809, with a witness nobody expected to come home. Content note: Murder, domestic abuse and execution; no graphic reconstruction. Chapters 00:00 A witness in the water 01:08 Episode one 01:38 A schooner, a debt, a family 03:43 The shot through the skylight 07:09 The rescue that did not end the danger 11:12 A voyage with changing names 15:42 Margaret's different case 19:28 A last account, and its limits 20:50 What the hatch carried Sources https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.45218 https://dai.mun.ca/PDFs/royalgazette/TheRoyalGazette18091221.pdf https://www.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/blogs/post/street-smart-blowers-street/ https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PUBLIC-RELEASES/Article/903732/maersk-alabama-captain-rescued/ Contact: [email protected]
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