S8 Ep770: Eric J. Dolan recounts how Charles Barnard offered the Isabella castaways a humanitarian deal — rescue in exchange for salvage rights — despite learning the War of 1812 had begun. However, the arrival of HMS Nancy, commanded by Lieutenant D'Aranda, transf
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
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Eric J. Dolan recounts how Charles Barnard offered the Isabella castaways a humanitarian deal — rescue in exchange for salvage rights — despite learning the War of 1812 had begun. However, the arrival of HMS Nancy, commanded by Lieutenant D'Aranda, transformed the rescue into a military confrontation, as D'Aranda seized the Nanina as a prize of war and marooned Barnard and four others on the islands. For 534 days the men survived using only their wits, with Barnard's dog Scent bravely hunting wild hogs to provide essential food. (3)
1849 FALKLANDS
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| 0:20.1 | This is CBSI on the world. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm John Baxter, visiting with Eric J. Dolan. |
| 0:24.6 | His new book is Left for Dead, Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World. |
| 0:29.0 | We're in the Falklands. |
| 0:30.3 | It's 1812, 1813. |
| 0:33.0 | There's a shipwreck coming from Australia, and women and children and men are scattered on the shore |
| 0:39.8 | of a bleak part of the Falklands. |
| 0:42.6 | Fortunately for them, there's a ceiling, experienced sealing crew led by Charles Barnard |
| 0:47.9 | and they are about to see the burning grass which suggests to them somebody's there. |
| 0:54.4 | And here they come across the shipwreck. |
| 0:56.2 | And the shipwreck people believe they're rescued. |
| 0:58.8 | Except, well, they are rescued in a way, Eric, except for it's going to be a long way around rescue. |
| 1:05.0 | Who knows there's a war on and who doesn't? |
| 1:08.7 | Yeah, when Charles Bernard and his other sealers come upon the erect ship |
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