Cyprus Brig, The

DESCRIPTION: "Poor Tom Brown from Nottingham, Jack Williams and poor Joe," three poachers, are transported. From Van Dieman's Land they are transported again aboard the Cyprus. They mutiny, and William Swallow is chosen to lead them to freedom
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1954 (Sydney Bulletin, according to Anderson)
KEYWORDS: transportation prison crime mutiny escape freedom
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
1829 - the Cyprus Mutiny
FOUND IN:
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Hugh Anderson, _Farewell to Judges and Juries: The Broadside Ballad and Convict Transportation to Australia, 1788-1868_, Red Rooster Press, 2000, p. 484, "The Cyprus Brig" (1 text, with a tune on p. 608)
Roud #24812
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Seizure of the Cyprus Brig in Recherche Bay" (subject)
NOTES [18 words]: For background on the Cyprus mutiny, see the notes to "Seizure of the Cyprus Brig in Recherche Bay." - RBW
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