For this hazardous mission, he chose the gunner, John Bulkeley ... midshipmen, crowded together with Cozens, Campbell, and Isaac Morris, as if they were back in the oaken vault on the Wager ...

The mutineers are led by John Bulkeley, the gunner of the ship. He leads repair efforts on the small boats which are left aboard what is left of “The Wager ... a midshipman only 16 years ...

Grann ultimately structured the book’s narrative around the accounts of three individuals—Captain Cheap, gunner John Bulkeley and John Byron ... who joined the Wager as a midshipman at just 16 years ...

The Wager, a British warship ... most notably gunner John Bulkeley. Bulkeley, a sailor to his bones, was highly competent and increasingly doubtful of Cheap’s judgment as their mission to ...

“The Wager,” David Grann’s account of the punishing ... Among the witnesses was midshipman John Byron—whose grandson, the poet Lord Byron, later cast the scene in verse: “The lots ...

John Bulkeley, the Wager’s gunner, borrowed Sir John Narborough’s chronicle of exploring the Patagonia region of South America from Byron in the hope of using his story to create a map for ...

For all the hours we spend with Cheap, Bulkeley and the others, they remain inaccessibly distant. That’s especially evident at the end. After the court-martial of the Wager’s survivors — its ...

“The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck ... most notably gunner John Bulkeley. Bulkeley, a sailor to his bones, was highly competent and increasingly doubtful of Cheap's judgment as their mission ...

By contrast, John Bulkeley “emerged ... he kept a detailed journal of Wager’s travails, peppered with verse. Image: Getty Images John Byron, a midshipman, bore witness to the ensuing power ...

The author’s latest book, “The Wager,” investigates the mysteries ... wooden ships that could go up in flames. A table in the midshipmen’s quarters was dedicated to amputating limbs.