HMS Wager

<p><strong>HMS <em>Wager</em></strong> was a square-rigged sixth-rate <a title="Royal Navy" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy">Royal Navy</a> ship of 28 guns. She was built as an <a title="East Indiaman" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Indiaman">East Indiaman</a> in about 1734 and made two voyages to India for the <a title="" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company">East India Company</a> before the Royal Navy purchased her in 1739. She formed part of a squadron under Commodore <a title= "George Anson, 1st Baron Anson" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Anson,_1st_Baron_Anson">George Anson</a> and was wrecked on the south coast of <a title= "Chile" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile">Chile</a> on 14 May 1741. The wreck of <em>Wager</em> became famous for the subsequent adventures of the survivors who found themselves marooned on a <a title="Wager Island" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wager_Island">desolate island</a> in the middle of a Patagonian winter, and in particular because of the <a title="Wager Mutiny" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wager_Mutiny">Wager Mutiny</a> that followed.</p>