[Carib] Nelson's Caribbean Hell-hole: An Eighteenth Century Navy Graveyard

[Nivard Ovington]

This was posted to the Mariners list but am sure many here will find it
interesting

Interesting also that it is briefly set on Bettys Hope a Plantation I
understand founded in the mid 1600's and owned from 1674 by Christopher
CODRINGTON

Nelson's Caribbean Hell-hole: An Eighteenth Century Navy Graveyard

Human bones found on an idyllic beach in Antigua trigger an
investigation by naval historian Sam Willis into one of the darkest
chapters of Britain's imperial past. As archaeologists excavate a mass
grave of British sailors, Willis explores Antigua's ruins and discovers
how the sugar islands of the Caribbean were a kind of hell in the age of
Nelson.

Sun, sea, war, tropical diseases and poisoned rum.


Available on BBC iplayer (for UK)
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01s6gjx/Nelsons_Caribbean_Hellhole_An_Eighteenth_Century_Navy_Graveyard_Uncovered/>

And utube
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmS1qnhb1RM>


Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)