{"product_id":"hell-ship-by-michael-veitch-9781760877460","title":"Hell Ship","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMeticulous research... Veitch fleshes out a tale of courage and tragedy and brings it to life with drama, passion and detail.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003ci\u003eHerald Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor more than a century and a half, a grim tale has passed down through Michael Veitch's family: the story of the \u003cem\u003eTiconderoga\u003c\/em\u003e, a clipper ship that sailed from Liverpool in August 1852, crammed with poor but hopeful emigrants - mostly Scottish victims of the Clearances and the potato famine. A better life, they believed, awaited them in Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThree months later, a ghost ship crept into Port Phillip Bay flying the dreaded yellow flag of contagion. On her horrific three-month voyage, deadly typhus had erupted, killing a quarter of \u003cem\u003eTiconderoga\u003c\/em\u003e's passengers and leaving many more desperately ill. Sharks, it was said, had followed her passage as the victims were buried at sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePanic struck Melbourne. Forbidden to dock at the gold-boom town, the ship was directed to a lonely beach on the far tip of the Mornington Peninsula, a place now called Ticonderoga Bay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJames William Henry Veitch was the ship's assistant surgeon, on his first appointment at sea. Among the volunteers who helped him tend to the sick and dying was a young woman from the Isle of Mull, Annie Morrison. What happened between them on that terrible voyage is a testament to human resilience, and to love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Veitch is their great-great-grandson, and \u003cem\u003eHell Ship\u003c\/em\u003e is his brilliantly researched narrative of one of the biggest stories of its day, now all but forgotten. Broader than his own family's story, it brings to life the hardships and horrors endured by those who came by sea to seek a new life in Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImaginative and vivid... a window onto the times, both in Britain and Australia.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849254621420,"sku":"9781760877460","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/26161543482814.jpg?v=1759030367","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/hell-ship-by-michael-veitch-9781760877460","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}