The Goodwill of the Antelope (1783)

Peter Barker, second mate on the Antelope wrote in his introduction to his story of the shipwreck: “However fatal and unfriendly the dreadful rocks round the Pelew islands may have proved to the navigators, it does not appear that anyone capable of relating his own misfortunes, with sufficient accuracy to claim public attention, ever before escaped from thence.” Ship Name: Antelope  Nationality: British  Tonnage: 300 Year Built: 1781 Ship Type: Packet Ship  Year Wrecked: 1783 Location Wrecked: Palau  Reason for Wreck: Struck Reef  Lives Lost: 1 Sources:  https://books.google.com/books?id=qZZeAAAAcAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=antelope+shipwreck+1783&source=gbs_navlinks_s https://books.google.com/books?id=zaxqKOIREigC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=antelope+shipwreck+1783&source=gbs_navlinks_s https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-110509 https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG129711 https://books.google.com/books?id=j0ZPAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=antelope+shipwreck+1783&source=gbs_navlinks_s https://books.google.com/books?id=d4wZhBCatvcC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=antelope+shipwreck+1783&source=gbs_navlinks_s https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxh3ft&view=1up&seq=125&q1=antelope https://books.google.com/books?id=gDoIAAAAQAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=shipwreck+stories&source=gbs_navlinks_s https://www.loc.gov/item/78009673