Last Voyage of Le Coureur
The Wreck of a Slave Ship off the Mauritius Coast
View of the wreck site
March 1821. Night had just fallen and there was a full moon. A small lugger was waiting offshore to deliver a cargo of slaves to French colonists residing on the British colony of Mauritius. Unfortunately, the seas were rough, a cyclone having passed through the region only days earlier. Dorval, commanding the small vessel, was...
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