The Voyage of the Saint Jean Baptiste

A French ship on an illicit smuggling mission, a crew dying from scurvy and 125-year-old map to a dangerous island known as New Zealand. Our would-be treasure hunters find out how the anchors of the St Jean Baptiste came to be left on the seabed of Doubtless Bay.

Special thanks to the Tarlton family for their support and trust in making this podcast.

For more about Kelly Tarlton we recommend:

• Watch: Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor
• Throw Me the Wreck, Johnny: memories of Kelly Tarlton by Steve Locker-Lampson
• Kelly: the Adventurous Life of Kelly Tarlton by E. V. Sale
• Navigators and Naturalists, By Michael Lee
• The Fateful Voyage of the St Jean Baptiste, By John Dunmore
• The Expedition of the St Jean Baptiste to the Pacific 1769 - 1770, Translated and edited by John Dunmore

Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details