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    Posted: 19-Aug-2012 at 19:56
That's right. Jack Tar got plenty of rum, sodomy and the lash, but mutinies were comparatively rare due to fear of reprisal and the realisation conditions could be much worse under a new captain
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  Quote Kevinmeath Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19-Aug-2012 at 20:32
Originally posted by Nick1986

That's right. Jack Tar got plenty of rum, sodomy and the lash, but mutinies were comparatively rare due to fear of reprisal and the realisation conditions could be much worse under a new captain
Most captains were fair and many were simply loved eg Cochrane.
 
Sodomy was a capital offence, Rum was loved and the the lash well avoid it.
 
During the Mutinees of the Nore etc the sailors themselves flogged their own.
 
I remember reading one account and the shocked 'liberal' watches a man being flogged-- a horrible site-- and turns to the 'Jack Tar' next to him and asks him what can be done to stop such a thing
"Well 'e can stop being a bloody thief for a start, serves 'im rite'
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  Quote Nick1986 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22-Aug-2012 at 19:59
The cat stripped flesh from bone, often exposing the lungs and spine. Few offenders survived 100 lashes even if the ship's doctor did intervene
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  Quote Mountain Man Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05-Sep-2012 at 19:23
The penalty for mutiny was to be "whipped 'round the fleet".  The offender would be taken to a ship and given one hundred lashes, then confined again and nursed back to health, and then taken to the next warship by seniority and the process repeated until he had been "whipped 'round the fleet" or died.

If, by some macabre chance, he survived all of this, he was then hung from the yardarm, then his body taken down, tarred to preserve it, and then left hanging from the yardarm in the Admiralty harbor for all to see and consider the message.

I cannot imagine anyone surviving one hundred lashes, let alone multiple repetitions of that punishment. I can only assume that the lashes were applied using deliberately less force in order to preserve the poor wretch for the  next round.


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  Quote Nick1986 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10-Oct-2012 at 07:33
This Cat has knots at the end of each tail, but sometimes these were fitted with metal hooks or weights to cause more pain
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One of the best series of it's type!
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