The Wreckers Timewatch : Season 27 Episode 3
BBC Two 50m
Aired: January 12th, 2008 @ 9:00 PM EST on BBC Two
How far did British coastal inhabitants go to gain the cargo of ships in distress? Did communities really lure ships onto the rocks, or is it a ghoulish popular myth? Were crews left to die while their ships were pillaged? Bella Bathurst, author of 'The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas and Plundered Shipwrecks', explores the answers.
