While this article focuses on flogging in the Colonial/United States Navy, much if not all of it still applies to our beloved series (and our beloved Royal Navy). Means of Punishment “The master-at-arms [assisted the […]
This uniform belonging to Lieutenant William Hicks is the only known surviving example of a Royal Navy lieutenant’s uniform from the Napoleonic Era (1812-25 regulation pattern). It is even more noteworthy for having belonged to […]
The common trope of the drunken sailor is alive and well in our beloved series, both below decks and in the gunroom. Here is a list of many of the beverages mentioned in the series, […]
This fascinating article explains the results of chemical isotope analysis done on the bones of sailors in the Royal Navy during the Age of Sail. Read on for an education on the diet of the […]
“Without math, would our seafaring ancestors ever have seen the world? Great mathematical thinkers and their revolutionary discoveries have an incredible story. Explore the beginnings of logarithms through the history of navigation, adventure and new […]
On August 19, 1799, Thomas Nash was hanged in Jamaica for the bloody mutiny on the HMS Hermione. The Admiralty’s most notorious mutiny this side of the Bounty was actually a far bloodier affair. Dig the description from […]
From the Sheerness Guardian, June 12th, 1869 The following interesting account of the Mutiny at the Nore was written by an eye-witness of the events described, then a workman in the Sheerness Dockyard. We have […]
These Articles of Demand were presented to Admiral Buckner by the Nore mutineers. It should be noted that the Admiralty received them and immediately rejected them. The official reply was “All that could reasonably be […]
The Spithead and Nore mutinies were two major mutinies by sailors of the Royal Navy in 1797. There was also discontent and minor incidents on ships in other locations in the same year. The mutinies […]
“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 […]
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