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Amphitrite
Amphitrite
Amphitrite
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Amphitrite

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Dockside in Woolwich, England on August 24th 1833. A terrified group of women, some pregnant, and their children are crammed into the hull of the prison ship, the Amphitrite. Their destination is Australia for a future life of hardship and endless toil. They were destined to never make it. History tells us no one made it out alive. In this historical fiction, the author may have found another story altogether.

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LanguageEnglish
PublisherDov Silverman
Release dateOct 3, 2012
ISBN9781301012596
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Dov Silverman

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Dov Silverman has served as a U.S. Marine in the Korean War, worked as a Long Island railroad conductor, been an auctioneer, and even established the Autar Microfilm Service. While working so hard on the railroad, he earned his high school diploma and went on to graduate from Stony Brook University, Long Island, New York, cum laude, at the age of 39. He and his family settled in Safed, Israel in 1972. He credits a spiritual meeting with God and a Tzaddik (righteous man), Jules Rubinstein, in the Brentwood (New York) Jewish Center, with setting him on the path of study, religious involvement and settlement in Israel. His novel, FALL OF THE SHOGUN, appeared on the London Times Best-Seller List and has been published in multiple languages. He also won a 1988 Suntory Mystery Fiction Award, Japan, for REVENGE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERDS.

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    Amphitrite - Dov Silverman

    AMPHITRITE

    BY

    DOV SILVERMAN

    Copyright 2012, Smashwords edition

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    Dockside in Woolwich, England on August 24th 1833.

    Amphitrite is Faction (fact and fiction blended to impart the human drama taking place). This story is based on the published accounts of Pierre Henin, François Herut in English and French newspapers reporting the loss of the Amphitrite, a Woman’s Prison Ship sailing for Australia.

    The wreck of the Amphitrite changed the penal laws of England. It highlighted the animosity between Protestant England and Catholic France. The catastrophe was compounded by the horrendous loss of young female lives due to English naval regulations, later amended because of this tragedy.

    Contrary to what was originally printed in English newspapers, charging French citizens robbed and abandoned the drowning women and children on the beach, I believe the Catholics of Boulogne, saved the Irish Catholic female prisoners. And with the help of local politicians, priests and police hid them, later integrating them into the community.

    I offer this complimentary novella in hopes you will think enough of my writing to purchase The Fall of the Shogun series and consider this five book historical account on the modernization of Japan. These novels appeared on the London Times Best Seller List and the Australian Book of the Month Club. These five novels written in English, and translated to German, Polish and Hebrew.

    Ninth generation Brooklyn, N.Y., born in 1933, A Marine veteran of the Korean War with three battle stars and two Presidential Unit Citations. I worked twenty years on the N.Y. Long Island Railroad as a Conductor. While on the railroad I earned my High School diploma at age 34 and went on to graduate Stony Brook University cum laude with majors in History, English and Education. In 1972 I took my family to Israel. We lived in Safed just above the Sea of Galilee (the setting for the Legends of Safed and The Kabbalist). There I taught English, became a supervisor of teachers and High School Principal and elected to the City council as special advisor to education.

    Dov Silverman

    Neptune, courted Amphitrite, the daughter of Nercus and Doris on the back of a dolphin. Amphitrite married the sea god Neptune. He rewarded the dolphin for eternity by placing him in the heavens with a pattern of stars. Ever since, the goddess Amphitrite was considered good luck for seafaring men.

    Until now!

    Amphitrite

    England August 24th, 1833

    The Amphitrite lay at rest against Woolwich Warf on the Thames River awaiting her cargo. She sprouted three masts with new rigging, clean stitched sails, gaff and boom.

    The ship's planks were secured to deck and hull forty years before with wooden pegs. Most gear and fittings were the original ship's design, including rudder, gratings, dead eyes and all the little details that make a sailing ship respond to her master's wishes. The Master and half owner was Capt. John (by The Articles) Hunter, formerly of His Majesty's Royal Navy.

    On the pre-sail inspection Captain Hunter touched every part and piece of gear from bow to stern and from

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