The American whaleship Mentor wrecked in 1832 on a remote reef in the Western Pacific. Eleven surviving crewmen faced the miseries of shipwreck and the uncertainty of contact with the Indigenous people of the Micronesian archipelago of Palau. We talk with historian Eric Jay Dolin who chronicles the saga in his new book The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair and Deliverance in the Age of Sail.
The 1832 wreck of the Mentor
