Shipwreck Stories, Tall or True

Saturday, 28 February 2009 19:00

Those who crossed the Atlantic in the days of the tall sailing ships were always in peril on the sea. Tens of thousands died, from scurvy, disease, shipwreck.

In this Old News preview, two newspaper shipwreck stories: one about two cannibal survivors, and another harrowing story about survivors of a shipwreck off Sable Island, a graveyard of the Atlantic.