15 men surviving for 30 days on British Virgin Islands.

"Dead Man's Chest" (also known as Fifteen Men On The Dead Man's Chest or Derelict) is a fictional[1] sea-song[2] originally from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island (1883). It was expanded in a poem, titled Derelict by Young E. Allison, published in the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1891. It has since been used in many later works of art in various forms.

Stevenson found the name "Dead Man's Chest" among a list of island names in a book by Charles Kingsley in reference to the Dead Chest Island in the British Virgin Islands.[3][4] As Stevenson once said, "Treasure Island came out of Kingsley's At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies (1871); where I got the 'Dead Man's Chest' - that was the seed"[5][6] That is, Stevenson saw the three words "Dead Man's Chest" in Kingsley's book among a list of names, germinating in Stevenson's mind it was the "seed" which then grew into the novel.

In Treasure Island Stevenson only wrote the chorus, leaving the remainder of the song unwri ...more

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