How a shipload of convicts survived the wreck of the Hive to make a new life in Australia
by
Babette Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
The luck of the Irish was chronic bad luck, as their sad history attests. That's how it looked for 250 Irish convicts when their ship, the Hive, sank ignominiously off the New South Wales coast in 1835. Miraculously all survived, guided to safety by local Aboriginal people.
They landed at a...