Introduction

Ahoy Mates!!!  Welcome to The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle WebQuest.  Are you ready to travel back in time to the summer of 1832?  Get ready to step onto the deck of the Seahawk and join 13-year-old Charlotte Doyle in a spellbinding tale of murder on the high seas. As your adventure begins, you will learn what it was like for sailors and passengers aboard a nineteenth-century sailing ship traveling the open sea. You will feel what it is like to climb a ship's rigging in hurricane-force winds and sit in a dark, rat-infested ship prison.  Do you have the stomach for it?  Here's your chance to prove yourself worthy of the high seas,"matey".