The Arniston was an East Indiaman
But had been
requisitioned as a troopship
She was sailing from
Ceylon to England
To repatriate soldiers
wounded in the Kandyan Wars
When during a storm
near Cape Agulhas, South Africa
She was wrecked at
Waenhuiskrans on 30 May 1815
With only six
surviving of the 378 aboard
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