Women and Children Last: The Burning of the Emigrant Ship Cospatrick

By Charles R. Clark

The period saw a number of catastrophic shipboard fires, but that involving the New Zealand-bound emigrant ship Cospatrick was certainly the most destructive. When she burned and sank off the coast of Southern Africa in 1874, nearly 500 people lost their lives. There was a desperate battle to quench the fire, a huge death toll as the vessel was being abandoned, and acts of cannibalism in the one lifeboat that remained afloat.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1877372145
• ISBN13: 9781877372148
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Otago University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.5" x 7.0"