In 1802, the merchant ship Obra Dinn departed from London for the East with over 200 tons of trade goods. Six months later, it failed to meet at the Cape of Good Hope and was declared lost at sea. On the morning of October 14, 1807, the Obra Dinn drifted into the port of Falmouth, its sails damaged and no crew in sight. As an insurance investigator for the London office of the East India Company, you were immediately dispatched to Falmouth to find a way aboard and prepare a loss assessment.