Nova Scotia
“While Nova Scotian captains had considerable skill at harnessing the power of natural forces to propel their ships, they were not always able to govern the greed, jealousy and bloodlust of some of the men who sailed on their ships. Some Nova Scotian sea crimes of this century happened close to shore and others far away. One of the most notorious shipboard crimes of the nineteenth century took place on the Saladin. The story begins in October of 1842 when Captain George Fielding left Liverpool,... Nova Scotia, on the 460-tonVitula, headed for Buenos Aires with a small crew, including his fourteen-year-old son, George Junior. Business didn’t look so good for the return journey, so he sailed on to Valparaiso, looking for a profitable cargo and later on to the Peruvian island of Chincha where he hoped to spirit away a full load of guano. That’s right, he was hoping to steal a shipload of bird droppings and sell it in some northern port. Odd as it may sound, this bird poop was worth a lotl of money and it was owned (and protected!) by the Peruvian government, which would not want to let it go without payment of a hefty tax.MoreLess
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