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 ...

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,” 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 ...

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 ...

the ship then struck rocks off the coast of what is now Wager Island - which remains uninhabited - on May 14, 1741. Poet Lord Byron's grandfather John Bryon, a 16-year-old midshipman on the ...

And you have reconstructed the story of The Wager from remarkable documents ... one was the gunner, John Bulkeley, and one was the young midshipman, John Byron. And what’s interesting is ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...