Case file · Apparition / miracle
John Newton's storm
On 10 March 1748 the slave-trade sailor John Newton, aboard the Greyhound in a violent North Atlantic storm, cried out for God's mercy as the ship seemed about to sink, and marked the day for the rest of his life as his conversion.
1748 CE · 55.00, -20.00 · status: account
The account
He later became an Anglican clergyman, wrote the hymn 'Amazing Grace' and, in 1788, published 'Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade' in support of abolition, admitting his own part in it. Position approximate.