Yarmouth Roads
Anchorage off Great Yarmouth on the Norfolk coast. Crusoe’s first ship founders in a storm there, in his first taste of shipwreck.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | setting | His first shipwreck, in a storm at anchor off Yarmouth. |
Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe (1719)
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The sixth day of our being at sea we came into Yarmouth Roads; the wind having been contrary and the weather calm, we had made but little way since the storm.
- Role: setting
- In the book: Crusoe’s ship anchors in Yarmouth Roads among Newcastle colliers waiting for a wind; on the eighth day a great storm rises, the masts are cut away, the ship springs a leak, and the crew are taken off by a boat from another ship. They land north of Yarmouth past Winterton Ness and walk to Yarmouth, where magistrates and merchants give them money, and the master calls Crusoe a Jonah.
- Why it matters: His first shipwreck is the first clear warning Crusoe ignores.