Violence
Violence
Editorial history
17/11/12: CSG, created page
Purpose of page
The MarineLives project is seeking to link and enhance HCA 13/71, not just to transcribe it.
Rough language is frequently used in conversations reported by HCA 13/71 witnesses. Occasionally these verbal confrontations include threats and acts of physical violence between masters and other members of their crew, and between crew members. Proximate causes range from disputes over the use of a compass, criticism by officers of a master's navigational decisions, and simple anger.
All associates, facilitators, advisors and PhD Forum members are encouraged to contribute to this page from their knowledge of the material, and from their broader knowledge and interest in the topic.
- What threats and acts of personal violence can we identify?
- What can we learn about the role of violence and threats of violence?
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Masters striking crew members
Captain Braining's ship, the Fortune, was wrecked on rocks on the way to Grand Malaga. William Andersonn , a gunner on the ship, from Stockdon in the Bishoprick of Durham, alleged that Braining's vicious temper led to a savage attack on the boatswayn on the day of the wreck. This attack, according to Andersonn, incapactitated the boatswayn, and contributed to the loss of the ship.
"16. To the 8th article of the sayd allegation he saith that the morning of the day (whereupon
17. the sayd shipp was lost as aforesayd) the sayd Braining the Master without
18. any provocation given him fell in furious manner upon the Boatswayn
19. of the sayd shipp and with a stick or Cudgell knockt him on the
20. head and wounded him very sore, to the endangereing of his life
21. so as he became unable to give any assistance when the shipp was
22. ˹in˺danger. for lack of whose helpe and the losse of the sayd shipp
23. was in some sort occasioned, which he knoweth to be true being then
24. and there present and seeing the depth and danger of the sayd wound
25. given as aforesayd to the sayd Boatswayn. And otherwise hee cánnot
26. depose."
