The Strathmore

In this episode, Graeme Hill is joined by maritime writer John McCrystal for a gripping account of the wreck of the Strathmore, an iron clipper bound for Dunedin in 1875. McCrystal traces the ship’s fatal encounter with the Crozet Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean, the desperate struggle of passengers and crew to survive on a barren rock, and the extraordinary endurance that kept the remaining castaways alive for more than six months before rescue. It is a stark, human story of navigation, disaster, leadership, loss, and survival at the edge of the world.