The trial of the crew of the Saladin was a celebrated pirate trial, long after the end of the Golden Age of Piracy. The tale of greed, betrayal, murder, and the huge amount of money that had inspired such acts was enough to grip the public imagination for years to come.
Ship Name: Saladin
Nationality: United Kingdom
Built: 1835
Tonnage: 550
Ship Type: Barque
Ship Wrecked: Nova Scotia
Year Wrecked: 1844
Reason Wrecked: Navigational Error
Lives Lost: None in the Wreck, 8 on the Voyage
Sources:
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/piracy
https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20190512/html.php
https://novascotia.ca/museum/wrecks/wrecks/shipwrecks.asp?ID=4108
https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol05/tnm_5_4_1-18.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20090903050357/http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/AtoZ/Saladin.html
