Peter Barker, second mate on the Antelope wrote in his introduction to his story of the shipwreck: “However fatal and unfriendly the dreadful rocks round the Pelew islands may have proved to the navigators, it does not appear that anyone capable of relating his own misfortunes, with sufficient accuracy to claim public attention, ever before escaped from thence.”

Ship Name: Antelope 

Nationality: British 

Tonnage: 300

Year Built: 1781

Ship Type: Packet Ship 

Year Wrecked: 1783

Location Wrecked: Palau 

Reason for Wreck: Struck Reef 

Lives Lost: 1

Sources: 

https://books.google.com/books?id=qZZeAAAAcAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=antelope+shipwreck+1783&source=gbs_navlinks_s

https://books.google.com/books?id=zaxqKOIREigC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=antelope+shipwreck+1783&source=gbs_navlinks_s

https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-110509

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG129711

https://books.google.com/books?id=j0ZPAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=antelope+shipwreck+1783&source=gbs_navlinks_s

https://books.google.com/books?id=d4wZhBCatvcC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=antelope+shipwreck+1783&source=gbs_navlinks_s

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxh3ft&view=1up&seq=125&q1=antelope

https://books.google.com/books?id=gDoIAAAAQAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=shipwreck+stories&source=gbs_navlinks_s

https://www.loc.gov/item/78009673