Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-01-10
MAN-O'-WAR MUTlNIES.
Jack Tars Who Revolt Are Usually
Hanqed With Utmost Promptness.


Hanged With Utmost Promptness.
Naval mutineers don't usually get
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 grant
ed free pardon by the Brazilian gov
ernment.
An example of quite another kind of
forded by that which broke out in the
Russian Black Sea fleet soon after the
conclusion of the war with Japan.
The sailors, led by an officer, seized
several ships, bombarded Odessa and
did not in the least know what to do
with their ironclads after they had
got possession of them, and most Of
them were afterward given up to the
Russian government.
Large numbers of the mutineers or
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 feet in 1889, which ended in
Brazil becoming a republic, was made
the occasion of a banquet in honor Of
the mutineers. A monument, too, was
afterward erected in their honor.
OF what may be called single-ship
naval mutinies perhaps the most fa-
nous was that Of the Bounty, British
in 1889. The mutineers put their cap
tin, Bligh, and 10 men into an open
boat, with small stock of provisions,
and set them adrift in mid-ocean.
OF course, they thought Bligh would
die of starvation and exposure, yet by
sheer logged pluck, combined with
good luck, Bligh sailed his frail cockle-
shell more than 1000 miles to the is
land 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 actually
discovered at Otahete and hanged.
But the bulk of them escaped from
justice by settling on the then unknown
Ltcairn Island, where their descend
ants still reside.
Then, of course, there was the great
mutiny of the entire British fleet al
the More, which began on May q,
1897, and was not suppressed until
June 13. The mutineers, during this
time, blockaded the mouth of the
Thames and held London at their mer-
cy. 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
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 quelled. Six
men, one from each ship, were sum-
marily hanged for their share in this
terrible affair, but the floggings in
fiicted on those whose lives were SPAR
ed were of such shocking severity
that death itself one would have i'm
agined, would have been preferable
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