The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-26
MAN.O.WAR MUTINIES.
Jack Tars Who Revolt are Usually
Hanged With Promptness.

off so easily as did those on the Bra
lillian dreadnoughts at Janeiro the
other day. These men not only got
what they demanded in the shape of
increased pay and no more corporal
punishment, but they were also
granted a free pardon by the Bra
lillian government.
An example of quite another kind
of ending to a big naval mutiny was
afforded by that which broke out in
the Russian Black Sea fleet soon af-
ter the conclusion of the war with
Japan. The sailors, led by an Of
fcer, seized several ships, lombard
ed Odessa and did not in the least
know what to do with their inron-
clads after they had got possession Of
them, and most of them were after
ward given up to the Russian gov
ernment.
Large numbers of the mutineers on
board escaped to neutral ports, but
those who did not were promptly
hanged, among those executed being
the officer who had been in supreme
command during the mutiny, and to
whose influence the outbreak was
largely due.
When, during the Chilean civil war
of 1891, President Balmeceda's ship,
the Giralda, mutinied, the entire
crew, officers and sailors alike, after
being overpowered, were summarily
shot by order of the angry dictator.
Not one was spared.
On the other hand, the mutiny Of
the Brazilian fleet in 1889, which
ended in Brazil becoming republic,
was made the occasion Of a banquet
in honor of the mutineers. A monu-
ment, too, was afterward erected in
their honor.
OF what may be called single-ship
naval mutinies perhaps the most ia
nous was that Of the Bounty, a
British man-o'-war, in the Southern
Pacific, in 1889. The mutineers put
their Captain, Bligh, and 19 men in
to an open boat, with a small stock
of provisions, and set them adrift in
mid-ocean.
OF course they thought Rligh
would die Of starvation and exosure,
yet by sheer dogged pluck, combined
with good luck, Bligh sailed his frail
cockle-shell more than 1000 miles
to the island of Timor, south Of the
Moluccas, whence he took passage to
England.
Another man-of-war was promptly
dispatched to try and find the mutt
neers, and a few of them were actu-
ally discovered at Otaheite and hang
ed. But the bulk of them escaped
from justice by settling on the then
unknown Litcairn Island, where their
descendants still reside.
Then, of course, there was the
great mutiny of the entire British
fleet at the More, which began on
May q, 1897, and was not suppress
ed until June 13. The mutineers
during this time, blocked the mouth
of the Thames and held London at
their mercy. But they could not
agree among themselves. First one
ship and then another surrendered,
and in the end the leaders of the
mutiny, including a sailor who had
styled himself Admiral Parker, were
taken and hanged.
Three years later the crew of the
Danac frigate mutinied and sailed
the ship into the French harbor OF
Brest, after numbering their officers.
Then a British squadron of six ships
stationed at Bantry Bay, in Ireland,
revolted, murdered their officers and
hoisted the red flag.
Luckily the marines remained true
to their king and country, and by
them the outbreak was chiefly quell-
ed. Six men, one from each. ship,
were summarily hanged for their
share in this terrible affair, but the
foggings inflicted on those whose
lives were spared were of such shock
ing severity that death itself one
would have imagined, would have
been preferable.