Black Sheep and Bad Apples

22 The Grafton, Part One: Shipwrecked


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Originally aired March 6th, 2020: Part one of two. We get together for the tale of the Grafton. In a story based upon the account of the survival of Francois Edouard Raynal.

In 1863, Raynal and five others took to the seas in order to find their riches in the Antarctic Seas near New Zealand. This story is about the shipwreck and survival of those men. They left in search of precious resources off Campbell Island. After a failed excursion, they made their way back to New Zealand and decided to stop off the coast of the fateful Auckland Islands Archipelago. When a storm struck, Raynal and company found themselves shipwrecked, alone, and left to their own devices.

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