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A Second Mate's Folly in a Mutinous Voyage
A Sea tale from 1805 recounts the Dolphin under John Heames with nine crew including a problematic second mate Johnson. Mutiny aboard at sea leads to a dramatic division of loyalties, pirate schemes, shipboard captures, and eventual trial in England with Johnson receiving fifteen years hard labor.
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Charles B Lewis
John Heames
Liverpool
Trade Town
Liberia
Doty
Dolphin
Mr. Johnson
Pierce
Harding
Cape de Verde Islands
Johnson
Horr
Casile
Mr. Doty
Ehsaan Pierce
Dobuson
South Atlantic
Jahnson
Duty
Dounson
Midocean
Mata
Chere
Charleston
Cape of Good Hope
Cook
Amazon
England
Heames