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Cyrus M. Hussey

Best known as a survivor-turned-chronicler, this Nantucket seaman helped turn a shocking Pacific mutiny into one of the most vivid firsthand accounts in early American maritime writing.

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A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824 And the journal of a residence of two years on the Mulgrave Islands; with observations on the manners and customs of the inhabitants

A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824 And the journal of a residence of two years on the Mulgrave Islands; with observations on the manners and customs of the inhabitants

by William Lay, Cyrus M. Hussey

About the author

Cyrus M. Hussey was a 19th-century Nantucket sailor and co-author of A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824. The book, written with William Lay, recounts the mutiny aboard the whaling ship Globe and the survivors’ long ordeal in the Pacific.

Sources available here consistently identify him as being from Nantucket and as one of the only survivors of the massacre described in the book. His writing stands out because it is not distant history or secondhand retelling: it comes from someone who lived through the violence, survival, and cultural encounters that followed.

Very little biographical detail beyond that could be confirmed from the sources retrieved in this conversation, but Hussey’s place in maritime literature is clear. His work remains of interest to readers drawn to whaling history, survival narratives, and firsthand accounts from the age of sail.