After my last update, I exchanged emails with one of the recipients. He clarified the difficulty of a large sailing ship navigating a harbor full of anchored vessels with the following:<\/p>\n
Most often, professionals known as \u201cpilots\u201d would handle the delicate procedure. Also in many case the ships didn\u2019t enter the harbor at all but would anchor in deeper waters, and their cargos were \u201clightered\u201d to and from the wharves. Finally, many Nantucket ships actually called in at Martha\u2019s Vineyard (officers and crews would sail over and board the \u201cprepared\u201d vessel)\u2026<\/p>\n
Democracy did not exist on a whale ship. The captain\u2019s rule was absolute. In First Fury<\/a>, a group of sailors (including Ann) are caught disobeying the captain\u2019s orders. On a 19th century whaling ship, punishment for such a thing included \u201cbeing put in irons\u201d or flogging, which was the most common. In flogging, a sailor was hung by his wrists until his toes just touched the deck. Then, the one executing the sentence would use a whip, rope, or a cat-o’nine-tails (a whip with 9 thin ropes often with some kind of weight at the end of each) to bare down on the offender\u2019s stripped back. A picture of a flogging can viewed here<\/a>. Richard Henry Dana In Two Years Before the Mast describes a flogging at sea as “Swinging the rope over his head, and bending his body so as to give it full force, the captain brought it down upon the poor fellow’s back. Once, twice – six times.” The full account can be found at http:\/\/www.eyewitnesstohistory.com\/flogging.htm<\/a>. This was not done in private; all the crew was required to watch. After my last update, I exchanged emails with one of the recipients. He clarified the difficulty of a large sailing ship navigating a harbor full of anchored vessels with the following: Most often, professionals known as \u201cpilots\u201d would handle the delicate procedure. Also in many case the ships didn\u2019t enter the harbor at all but … Continue reading “April – Punishment on a 19th Century Whaler”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26,52,65,77,87,88,91,111,113],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firstfury","tag-ann","tag-flogging","tag-johnson","tag-mitchell","tag-punishment","tag-rebecca","tag-rochester","tag-whaling","tag-whip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNext month, see where Ann lived in Rochester, New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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