Mustering The Company
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Transportation as Punishment: The Voyage of the Courtesans
In The Nutmeg of Consolation and The Truelove/Clarissa Oakes, the practice of transportation as punishment for crimes committed in Britain forms the background for the action of the novels. Transportation was, in essence, a life sentence of exile, as the transports had very little chance of ever seeing home again. In some cases the convicts [...] -
The Execution of Admiral Byng
“Any court-martial is a perilous thing, whether you are in the right or the wrong – justice has nothing much to do with it. Remember poor Vincent of the Weymouth: remember Byng – shot for an error of judgment and for being unpopular with the mob.“ – Captain Ferris to Jack Aubrey, Master and Commander [...] -
An Introduction to Life at Sea in Aubrey’s Royal Navy
The full experience of life aboard a man o’ war in Aubrey’s Royal Navy is not something that can be easily summed up in a short article. It’s not something that can be easily summed up in 20 novels, though Patrick O’Brian gives us an incredible window into that world long past. However, this introductory [...] -
Naval Punishment For Boys: “Kissing The Gunner’s Daughter”
In the eighteenth century the Royal Navy encouraged boys as young as nine to enlist as ‘servants’ (the lower age limit was raised to 13 in 1794). They acted as cabin boys to officers and senior seamen, but they were also apprentice seamen, ‘learning the ropes’ (literally) as they underwent sail training on the rigging. [...] -
Breaking the 29th Article
“It is odd how the law always harps upon the unnaturalness of sodomy,” observed Stephen. “Though I know at least two judges who are paederasts; and of course barristers. What will happen to him?” “Oh, he’ll be hanged. Run up at the yard-arm, and boats attending from every ship in the fleet.” – Conversation between [...] -
An Introduction to Punishment in Aubrey’s Royal Navy
Discipline in the Royal Navy of Nelson’s time is often seen as a harsh and unbending code of ‘starting’, flogging and hanging. But to take punishment out of the context of the times is to miss the comparison between life on land and life at sea during the Georgian period. The Georgian code of justice [...] -
The Articles of War (1749)
Compiled and introduced by Gibbons Burke. The Articles of War on board a Royal Navy ship assumed the proportions and gravity of holy writ. It served as the law and axis mundi of the secular religion practiced upon His Majesty’s Ships otherwise known as the Service. It was read at least once a month, usually [...]