In this episode, Graeme Hill is joined by John McCrystal for a gripping Shipwreck Tales account of the Sydney Cove, one of Australia’s earliest recorded shipwrecks. What begins as a speculative trading voyage from Calcutta to the fledgling penal colony at Port Jackson becomes a brutal survival story: a leaking ship, a desperate beaching on Preservation Island, a failed rescue mission, and a 640 kilometre overland trek along a hostile and unfamiliar coastline. It is a tale of endurance, misjudgment, maritime superstition and cruel twists of fate, ending with rescue for some and tragedy for others.