Speaker: Steve Priestley

"The Wreck of the General Grant"

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The true story about a man from Devon and a girl from Manchester who strike gold in Australia and then are shipwrecked as they try to bring it home. They survive for 18 months on an island in the Southern Sea before rescue. Steve traces their lives from their beginnings in England, through their time in the goldfields, and then of course the dramatic story of the shipwreck itself and of their eventual rescue -- and finally their subsequent brief minor celebrity status back in Australia.

Photos: Steve Priestley