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May 23, 2012 · Hitchcock’s The Birds is based on her short story of the same title and she also wrote Rebecca, which Hitchcock turned into another classic film. “‘The Wreckers’ was actually from Daphne Du Maurier,” Neil says in a 2012 Classic Rock interview.
Jan 1, 2005 · This story is based on a real incident, the grounding of the cargo ship SS Politician in the Hebrides in 1941. From the wreckers' standpoint, general cargo ships are usually the best prizes, carrying as they do all manner of useful, valuable, and just plain interesting goods.
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Jul 13, 2021 · Tallan starts a song about the need for a wind to drive a ship onto their rocks so that they can all avoid starvation, and the villagers all get drinks and join in – clearly they are wreckers, surviving on the plunder from ships which have foundered on their rocks.
The Wreckers is set amongst the legends of the Cornish coast, where it was thought that ships were deliberately led astray by the people who lived on the coast, so that they would wreck on the rocks and could be plundered.
Q. How much truth is in The Wreckers? A. I tried to be as accurate as possible with every detail in the story. Its setting on the Cornwall coast of England is absolutely real. Cornishmen were famous for wrecking, though the deliberate entrapment of ships was hardly ever practiced.
On the barren coast of Cornwall, England, lived a community who prayed for shipwrecks, a community who lured storm-tossed ships to crash upon the sharp rocks of their shore. They fed and clothed themselves with the loot salvaged from the wreckage; dead sailors' tools and trinkets became decorations for their homes.
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Set in 1799 on the coast of Cornwall, England, fourteen-year-old John survives a brutal shipwreck only to find himself hunted by a murderous village that lures ships to its coast and wrecks them to scavenge the remains. The Wreckers is the first book in Lawrence’s High Seas Adventures trilogy.
