Coastal Stories

S3 Ep2: The Ballad of Captain Leinster


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Thomas Sinclair Leinster of North Shields might have been a master mariner but he definitely wasn't a master criminal. The story of his disastrous 1894 attempt at insurance fraud on the high seas is a tragic tale of farce, incompetence, high comedy and a fake beard.

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Coastal StoriesBy Charlie Connelly

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