1782 In the first ten days of September, a huge fleet of West Indies was hit by a strong hurricane in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on its way to Britain. This fleet includes merchant ships, British warships and French warships captured by British Admiral george rodney from Admiral Degrees in the naval battle in April of the same year. Graves' flagship Ramirez sank, but all 600 people on board were rescued. Among other shipwrecks, 1200 people from two ships, "Wilparian" and "Ken Taulos", sank to the bottom of the sea. Ingrid, the captain of the Ken Taulos, abandoned the ship and escaped, and was tried by the British Navy.

This huge fleet of 93 ships, commanded by British Admiral Graves, was dispersed by a hurricane on the way to Britain in September 1782. Most of them were French ships captured in the naval battle in April. In that naval battle, British Admiral george rodney defeated French Admiral Desgres.

At this time, both British ships and French ships are barely suitable for sailing, because the damage suffered by these ships in the battle has only been initially repaired. One of the most seriously injured ships, the Ken Taulos, with more than 400 crew members, struggled with the hurricane under the command of Captain ingrid. The storm became more and more violent, and the ship tilted badly. Ingrid ordered all masts to be cut off, and the Ken Taulos returned to stability, but the weapons on board became a life-threatening problem. The storm blew three heavy guns off the gun rack and smashed the wooden box full of shells. Cannons and shells rolled on the ship and hit the railings, deck beams and cabin panels of the ship. Dozens of sailors chased them and tried to hold them steady. Several people were crushed to death by the rolling artillery, and others were stabbed by the broken pieces of the support from the artillery and shells. Later, the cannon hit the side of the oak boat continuously and crashed out of the hole before being tied up by the sailors with ropes.

Ingrid was warned that there was danger on board, but he ignored the warning and pointed to the gorgeous three-deck warship "Villepin" that had entered the line of sight, telling his officers that the French floating warship with the British flag would definitely come to rescue them.

At this moment, the wind suddenly calmed down. The people on the Ken Taulos are very happy to see the Parisians coming towards them. This is the only ship under the full command of General Graves that has not been damaged by the storm. The frustrated sailors of Ken Taulos cheered when they saw her sail full and braving the wind and waves. Ingrid launched a rocket flare and observed the ship through a telescope. "Paris" answered and went straight to "Ken Taulos". Ingrid was sure that "Paris" would come to rescue them, so he refused the help of several passing merchant ships and motioned them to leave.

But then something unexpected happened. The tall French warship under the command of Captain Wilson suddenly turned around and sailed in the opposite direction. It disappeared an hour later and never appeared again. It disappeared with 800 passengers on board. The disappearance of this big ship has become one of the most mysterious events at sea.

The situation of the Ken Taulos is getting worse. The ship was filled with a lot of seawater, and almost all the crew were pumping water with pumps. Ingrid wrote in his diary: "Everyone works silently and willingly."

The Ken Taulos kept pumping water all night, and now it is very lonely. After Graves' huge fleet was hit by the storm, all the ships were scattered on the rough sea. In the darkness, Captain ingrid and his sweaty sailors heard the guns of other ships in the distance. They saw the flash of the shell explosion, and they knew in their hearts that it was a salute to bid farewell to the sunken ship. For "Ken Taulos people", this is almost over.

No matter how fast the sailors scooped water and pumped water, the seawater made Ken Taulos sink inch by inch, and the lower deck was slowly submerged. The exhausted sailors collapsed at their posts. Captain ingrid came to them and encouraged them to continue their work, but he also knew that they were exhausted. "... many people see that their efforts are useless and cry like children. "At this time, it is time for them to escape from the sea. But as we all know, there are only a few lifeboats on board.

After leaving the pump, many sailors intend to resign themselves to fate. They went to the hammock and asked their friends to tie them to it. Others, such as carpenters, are trying to make life rafts out of window grilles, masts and sails.

Ingrid wrote: "Most people want to put on their best clothes." I've never heard of such a move. Maybe those sailors who are ready to die have seen Haili.

Captain ingrid is not going to put on his best uniform and sink with the Ken Taulos. He doesn't like people who take pleasure in suffering in the sailing age. He values his life more than observing the ancient sailing custom that the captain must die with his own ship. He found a sampan beside his cabin, so he motioned Renee, a young midshipman, a military medical assistant, a helmsman, a maritime signalman and six strong soldiers to put the sampan into the water and take out a piece of paper to make a sail.

Down to the sampan, ingrid ordered to support the temporary sail, and then 12 people rowed the sampan and left the sinking Ken Taulos. More than 400 people on board (most of them didn't see the sampan being put into the water) stood by the railing and watched their captain leave. All eyes on the sampan turned away from the Ken Taulos, and only the captain continued to silently look back at those trapped people under his command. They are all cursing him. At this time, the sun has set, and the small sampan is drifting together in the stormy waves. Gradually, no one can see Ken Taulos.

Ingrid later said that there were 12 of them. On a leaking ship, there is only one big stove ... no compass, no sail and no thick coat. Everyone wore only thin clothes and drifted in the direction of the Azov Islands in hurricanes and big waves 13 days. His supply is only a small ham, some pork, a bag of bread and two quarts.

In the trial, ingrid made a clever defense for himself. Admiralty officials understood his statement, and some even praised his drifting behavior at sea. The Supreme Court acquitted him and cleared his personal experience. But no one spoke for the 400 people who died.

1In the first ten days of September, 782, this huge fleet of West Indies was shipwrecked, resulting in the loss of 1200 people, including 800 people on the French warship and 400 people on the Ken Taulos warship. Analysis of the causes of the fleet's death, first, the sea was hit by a storm, which was of course a natural disaster, and no one expected it in advance; Secondly, in these fleets, both British ships and French ships are barely suitable for sailing, because the damage suffered by these ships in the battle has only been initially repaired, which is of course a man-made disaster. Disasters that can be predicted and avoided in advance are precisely because of ignorance and neglect of sudden disasters. Ingrid is more responsible for Ken Taulos's death. If he hadn't refused the assistance of several passing merchant ships, 400 people might have really survived this disaster.