The Survivors of the Chancellor

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The Survivors of the Chancellor
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Author Jules Verne
Original titleLe Chancellor
Translator George M. Towle
Illustrator Édouard Riou
LanguageFrench
Series The Extraordinary Voyages #13
Genre Adventure novel
Publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Publication date
1875
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
1875
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Preceded by The Mysterious Island  
Followed by Michael Strogoff  

The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger (French : Le Chancellor: Journal du passager J.-R. Kazallon) is an 1875 novel written by Jules Verne about the final voyage of a British sailing ship, the Chancellor, told from the perspective of one of its passengers (in the form of a diary).

Contents

Plot summary

Characters

At the beginning of its voyage, the Chancellor carried eight passengers and twenty crew members. By the end, only eleven people (five passengers and six crew) remained alive.

Passengers

Crew

Timeline

The crew and passengers of the Chancellor are at sea for four months, from September 27, 1869 to January 27, 1870.

Note: This timeline omits any events for which the date cannot be precisely determined.

Onboard the Chancellor (September 27 - December 7, 1869)

Onboard the raft (December 7, 1869 - January 27, 1870)

References to the novel

Footnotes

  1. ^ In chapter XXX, Jules Verne writes that the Chancellor had been at sea 72 days before sinking. However, the actual length of its voyage is less than 71 days (it sailed only nine hours on September 27 and was afloat only eight hours on December 7). The precise length of the voyage is either 70 days, 17 hours (if the ship sank at 8:00 Charleston time) or 70 days, 15 hours (if the ship sank at 8:00 local time in the UTC-3 time zone, which would be 6:00 in Charleston, which is located in the UTC-5 time zone).

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