The shipwreck of the L’Utile.

By Miss Cellania in Everything Else on Apr 28, 2007 at 6:02 pm

On July 31, 1761, the French ship L’Utile shipwrecked on a one square kilometer island in the Indian Ocean. The sailors built a boat and managed to escape, but they left behind 60 slaves the ship was carrying illegally. Fifteen years later, the survivors (seven women and a baby) were finally rescued. UNESCO is still researching the story of their escape attempts and how some survived those years on what is now named Tromelin Island. Link -via Reddit