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had not been tied by one of the sailors under his supervision. Casey was brought before the captain, and while he took full responsibility for it, Pigot demanded that Casey get on his knees and beg for forgiveness. This would have been a terrible insult for a gentleman, and Casey refused. The captain gave him 12 lashes, and he was disrated, which would end his career as a naval officer. The crew felt Casey was punished unfairly, and the
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deck, one of whom hit and injured the master
Southcott. Pigot ordered their bodies thrown into the sea with the words "throw the lubbers overboard". "Lubbers" meant "awkward fools" and was a serious insult in the seaman's vocabulary. He then instructed two boatswain's mates to flog the rest of the topmen when they complained. This sentence was carried out the next morning.
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and two midshipmen were also killed and all the bodies were thrown overboard. Three warrant officers survived, the Gunner and
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struck the ship. Dissatisfied with the speed of the operation because "these would be the yard-arm men, the most skilful topmen" he gave the order that the last men off the yard would be flogged. Three young sailors, in their haste to get down and avoid the punishment, fell to their deaths on the
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began to plot mutiny.As historian Niklas
Frykman, has written, "the Hermione "had not been a happy ship. Captain Pigot sadistic, erratic and highly irritable flogged frequently without mercy. A week before the mutiny he appears to have been completely unhinged."
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went aground. Pigot blamed Harris, however, and insisted upon an inquiry. Though Harris was exonerated, he immediately left the ship to serve on another. Pigot had by now developed a reputation for excessive brutality. On 6 September 1797, and in company with
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with Casey, who was also spared, and their eyewitness accounts and testimony were key to the trials of many of the mutineers. Three petty officers joined the mutiny, one midshipman, Surgeon's Mate Cronin, and Master's Mate Turner.
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s crew, including Pigot's elderly servant and his twelve-year old son, on the grounds that they could not reasonably have been expected to resist armed mutineers. Parker forced Bligh to resign and return to
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under fire from enemy batteries without losing a single man. Pigot’s dispatch to the
Admiralty did not mention the contributions that other ships and officers had made to the operation. In an incident in May 1797, the
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cut her out of the harbour on 25 October 1799. The
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under Captain Henry Ricketts to commence negotiations. He also set up a system of informers and posted rewards, which eventually led to the capture of 33 of the mutineers, some of whom were tried aboard
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some eight years earlier. The Spanish gave the mutineers just $ 25 each in return, and presented them with the options of joining the Spanish army, heavy labour, or refitting their ship. The
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has pointed out that beyond the frequency of flogging was Captain Pigot's "complete lack of balance". Pope noted for example that in April 1795, a seaman on the HMS
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Pigot had also developed the practice of flogging the last sailor down from working aloft. On 20 September 1797, Pigot ordered the topsails to be reefed after a
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163:Relations
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147:HMS
140:HMS
121:1782–1797
83:HMS
855:Miller.
643:Hermione
634:Surprise
620:Hermione
580:schooner
567:reached
565:Hermione
543:Hermione
528:Hermione
511:Hermione
462:Renommee
448:Hermione
444:Hermione
423:Penelope
403:Hermione
379:Hermione
371:Surprise
361:Hermione
347:Hermione
339:Hermione
302:Success,
208:Patshull
169:(father)
156:Hermione
136:Commands
106:Service/
85:Hermione
62:Patshull
1002:Jeans.
792:Tracy.
752:Success
714:Tracy.
409:Mermaid
310:Mercury
289:Success
281:in the
236:to the
234:Jupiter
229:Jupiter
216:Admiral
184:captain
149:Success
130:Captain
81:Aboard
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969:Pyle.
956:Mutiny
923:Mutiny
890:Mutiny
599:hanged
538:Bounty
503:marine
490:squall
482:topmen
469:Mutiny
430:Quebec
279:Canada
196:mutiny
108:branch
88:, off
906:Dye.
661:Notes
571:when
514:'
499:cabin
416:Drake
253:sloop
1209:ISBN
1186:ISBN
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1120:ISBN
1101:ISBN
1082:ISBN
1059:ISBN
1027:ISBN
750:HMS
601:and
594:York
458:and
426:and
389:and
275:Swan
258:Swan
142:Swan
126:Rank
72:Died
49:Born
397:at
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