The trial of the crew of the Saladin was a celebrated pirate trial, long after the end of the Golden Age of Piracy. The tale of greed, betrayal, murder, and the huge amount of money that had inspired such acts was enough to grip the public imagination for years to come.

Ship Name: Saladin

Nationality: United Kingdom

Built: 1835

Tonnage: 550

Ship Type: Barque

Ship Wrecked: Nova Scotia

Year Wrecked: 1844

Reason Wrecked: Navigational Error

Lives Lost: None in the Wreck, 8 on the Voyage

Sources:

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/piracy

https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20190512/html.php

http://yarmouthhistory.ca/yarmouthhistory/LocalHistory/Entries/2014/10/1_Piracy_and_Murders_on_the_Barque_Saladin.html

https://novascotia.ca/museum/wrecks/wrecks/shipwrecks.asp?ID=4108

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=67&dat=18440808&id=54ExAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FicDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3304,3181519

https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol05/tnm_5_4_1-18.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20090903050357/http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/AtoZ/Saladin.html