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 ...

In 1740, a warship called The Wager left England as part of a ... the gunner, John Bulkeley, and the midshipman, John Byron – to show how each is shading the story to try and emerge as the ...

“The Wager” is an incredible example ... David Cheap; the gunner, John Bulkeley; and midshipman, John Byron, grandfather of the famous poet Lord Byron. The author researched for many years ...

Captain Cheap was excused the loss of the Wager, and promoted. His loyal Midshipman John Byron later became a Vice-Admiral. Bulkeley went on to command a 40-gun privateer. Cheap’s brutal ...

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 ...

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 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 ...