The Good Ship Jane, Why She Became Flotsam

Good evening. This is crime classics. I am Thomas Highland with another true story of crime listen The sound of brace and bit boring into wood Good wood mahogany a hardwood and since this is 1821 And the tools weren't as finely tempered as they are today a resisting wood One needed to really lean into it

Give it muscle Here's something, water coming in at last, but how slowly. Just boring holes in the bottom of a ship. That's no way to scotlet. It's an axon! Yeah! As I said, mahogany is a good hardwood, fine for ships' keels.

Doesn't hold up under an ax, though. Here comes the Atlantic Ocean. My report to you on the good ship Jean, why she became Flotsam, crime classics, a series of true crime stories taken from the records and newspapers of every land from every time.

Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Highland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence and teller of murder. Now once again, Mr. Thomas Highland, let's talk about schooners for a moment. The first one ever built was in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1700-13, by Captain Andrew, Andy, Robbie, Robinson.

The schooner is a four and half rigged vessel, and was much used in fishing in its earliest days. However, it was soon used as an ocean trader, taken as it was into the hearts of ship owners, since it used a smaller crew.

The vessel that concerns us here is Jane of Gibraltar, rigged, rigged for, and schooner rigged up. She'd carry from 90 to 120 tons and had seen service on all the seven seeds. The Jane was wing anchor at Gibraltar on her way to Brazil. Her captain was Thomas Johnson, her cabin boy, a youth promoter named Andrew cameleer and in