The Cruise of the Alerte

by E. F. Knight

The Cruise of the "Alerte" is Edward Frederick Knight's captivating account of a daring sea voyage undertaken in the late nineteenth century. In 1889, Knight and a small crew set sail from England aboard the yacht Alerte on a mission to reach the remote, uninhabited island of Trinidad in the South Atlantic. Their goal: to search for legendary buried treasure rumored to have been hidden there by pirates or shipwrecked sailors. Knight vividly chronicles the challenges of ocean navigation, from unp