The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-30
MUTINY ON A WHALESHIP.
a Horrible Experience at Sea Told by
a Surviving Participant.
From the Boston Herald.

Perhaps the most horrible thing that
can happen at sea is a mutiny. One of
the worst ever perpetrated upon the deck
of a whaleship was that on board the
Globe of Nantucket, in January, 1924.
Very few persons are still living in the
quaint old fishing port Nantucket who
remember the details of that unfortunate
crime. but as related by one of the act
ors in that dreadful tragedy to his son,
the story runs as follows:
The ship Globe of Nantucket sailed from
that port the day after Christmas. in
1922, with Capt. Thomas Worth in COM
mand. and when she again entered that
port in November 1894. her decks were
stained with the life-blood of her captain
and her three mates.
On the night of Jan. %, 1924. four of the
crew, headed by Samuel B. Comstock. a
boat steerer mutinied, and, killing their
superior officers. took the ship into the
MulgraYe islands, intending to destroy
her. Arrived there, they proceeded to striD
the vessel, and while doing so a quarrel
arose among themselves, which culuni-
mated in the death of Cemstock. soon
after this, before the work of denoIi-
ton had progressed, six of the men. most
of whom had taken no part in the mutinv
and simply remained quiet to avoid the
fate that had overtaken the captain and
mates, having been sent to guard ire
ship, cut the cable ana escaped from tbe
islands, arriving at Valparaiso after a
long and boisterous passage. Here the
vessel was taken in charge by the A.
erican consul. apd the men confined mend
ing their examination, after which tbev
were restored to the Globe, which ,yas
put in charge of Capt. King and sent ~
Nantucket.
Ten men had been left at the MuIyraves
but repeated injuries to the natives on The
part OF Sllas Payne the second in com
mand OF the mutineers at the time Of
the outbreak and the murderer of his
associate conspirator, Comstock. so in.
censed them, that one after another Of
the crew were slain, the innocent nerisb-
ing with the guilty, until, on the arrival
of the United States warship that had
been sent there to rescue the stIrt,i,1ora
but two remained alixe-William Law Of
New London and Cyrus HUssey of Nan
tucket
In an account of this sad affair written
by Hussey Immediately after his reec,Ia
and now in the possession of his desca,
dants in Nantucket he relates the follow.
ing incident as showing the gross brutal
ity of Comstock, the chief of the no1tinaa,s
and the miserably slight pretext by which
they justified to themselves their diabolf-
cal plot and its carrying out
Some time previous to the mutiny Com
stock, who was boat-steerer, had desired
a friendly wrestle with the third rnate
Nathanial Fisher. Fisher, beng the more
athletic. handled him with so much ease
that Comstock, cnraged at Fishers s,-
periority, struck him, whereupon The tbird
mate laid him on deck several times very
severely. Comstock at the time made
threats Of vengeance against Fisher. to
which the latter paid no attention.
After stabbing to death the captain and
first mate, who were both asleep at the
time of the assault, the mutineers nro-
ceeded to attack the second ana +bira
mates, who were in the cabin Comstoclr
had loaded two musllets, and on reaching
the cabin door he fired one of them in the
direction in which he judged the officers
were, shooting Fisher in the mouth. They