Maritime incompetence

Maritime incompetence

Editorial history

08/11/12: CSG, created page

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Purpose of page

The MarineLives project is seeking to link and enhance HCA 13/71, not just to transcribe it. Marine incompetence is alleged and described in a number of HCA 13/71 cases and depositions.

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 types and examples of marine incompetence are described?
• To what extent is personal agency assumed versus an acceptance of act of God or the nature of the seas?

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Navigational errors

• "Departed from the Hope (to the best of his remembrance) upon a Sunday morning next after the fore mentioned Saturday, and sayling by the Redstand XXXX and the fflatts that morning, and att that tyme there blew a very strong wind from the Northwest and By west, but the sayd shipp came not to the narrow nor did edge in as is pretended by this interrogatorie, but came neere to the Wooll pack which is out of the narrow, and there struck and lost her rudder"

- HCA 13/71 f.106r Case: Wilkinson con Warren; Deposition: XXXX; Date: 02/03/1655 (1656)

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Overloading of ship

John Moye, a twenty year old mariner from the parish of Saint Katherine by the Tower of London, gave evidence about the humiliating sinking of the Julian whilst taking on its lading from a lighter in the river Thames. Moye argued that the cause was the overloading of the ship by the lightermen.

• "was by waves thereof over flowed by the XXXX tyde slidd and all her ladeing sunke in the thames soe that nothing of he appears a bove water but her mast and a little of her sterne and the company of her was forced to forsake the sayd shipp…"

- HCA 13/71 f.258r Case: Tether against Bergan ?ge; Deposition: 3. John Moye of the parish of Saint Katherine neere the Tower London Mariner aged 20; Date: 18/06/1656 CHECK DETAILS