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sailor on the Nottingham galley George White
A firsthand voice from one of colonial New England’s most infamous shipwreck stories, remembered for helping tell the grim, gripping tale of the Nottingham Galley disaster. His surviving account captures endurance, fear, and the harsh realities of life at sea in the early 1700s.
1 Audiobook
A True Account of the Voyage of the Nottingham-Galley of London, John Dean Commander, from the River Thames to New-England
by Christopher Langman, Nicholas Mellen, sailor on the Nottingham galley George White
About the author
Almost nothing appears to be recorded online about George White beyond his role as a sailor aboard the Nottingham Galley. He is credited, alongside Christopher Langman and Nicholas Mellen, as one of the attesting voices behind A True Account of the Voyage of the Nottingham-Galley of London, a narrative of the 1710 wreck on Boon Island off the coast of Maine.
Because the surviving sources are so limited, it is safest to describe him not as a well-documented literary figure, but as a witness to a historic maritime disaster whose published testimony helped preserve the event for later readers. That gives his work a direct, lived quality that still stands out today.
No reliable portrait image for this author was found in the sources reviewed.