The Hartwell was a British ship which in 1787 set out on a maiden voyage from Gravesend

Gravesend, Kent

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 to China

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There was a mutiny

Mutiny

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 on board on May 22, 1787, which led to the ship running aground and sinking on the reef of the isand, Boa Vista in the Cape Verde islands off West Africa.

John Bellingham

John Bellingham

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, many years later to gain fame and notoriety for assassinating Prime Minister Spencer Perceval

Spencer Perceval

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, was a midshipman

Midshipman

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on the Hartwell.