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Updated: May 13, 2025
It was quite apparent that the sailing-master was sorely needed in the Revenge, if order was to be brought out of this chaos, but he received no orders to quit the Plymouth Adventure. He was a proper seaman, Ned Rackham by name, who had deserted from the Royal Navy, after being flogged and keel-hauled for some trifling offense.
"If you please, Mynheer Short, Mynheer Vanslyperken give orders dat de boy be keel-hauled dis morning: I want haben de rope and de way." Short looked at the corporal, and made no reply. "Mynheer Short, I haben tell de order of Mynheer Vanslyperken." Dick Short made no reply, but leaning over the hatchway, called out, "Jemmy."
It was a great relief, therefore, to find that no one was in the least degree hurt, though some of the natives had been soused most soundly, or, as the Jacks said, who grinned at the whole affair, "keel-hauled in proper style." In a certain sense, then, this experiment may be said to have failed; but enough was done to show that it might be rendered exceedingly effective on many occasions.
Why, I may lose the number of my mess myself long before I ever reach there!" said Tommy, contemptuously. "A caterer who forgets to provide eggs for the mess ought to be keel-hauled! Who is the caterer, steward?" "Mr Stormcock, sir." "Oh, indeed! Stormcock, eh?" repeated little Mills, making me choke with suppressed laughter.
Anyone caught being disorderly will be keel-hauled. Have a look at this thermometer, Joe. It's almost eighty-nine! Let's get out of here in a hurry!" For the next ten minutes the fellows busied themselves as Steve had directed. All, that is, save Perry.
I have seen a man keel-hauled at sea, and brought up on the other side, his face all larded with barnacles like a Shrove-tide capon. I stood by when that poor mad wretch Damiens was pulled to pieces by horses in the Grève. I have seen what the plague could do in the galleys at Marseilles. Death and I have been boon companions and bedfellows.
"Down came the little craft at once with a splash, almost on the top of me; and though she managed to ship some water through her sudden immersion, she quickly righted herself on an even keel, right side up." "By George, I'd have keel-hauled 'em wrong side down!" cried the skipper, out of all patience at hearing of this piece of gross stupidity. "The damned awkward lubbers!"
Whereupon Jemmy put his pipe to his mouth, and after a long flourish, bawled out what appeared to Mr Vanslyperken to be all hands to be keel-hauled; but Jemmy slurred over quickly the little change made in the order, and, although the men tittered, Mr Vanslyperken thought it better to say nothing. But there is an old saying, that you may bring a horse to the pond, but you cannot make him drink.
"If you please, Mynheer Short, Mynheer Vanslyperken give orders dat de boy be keel-hauled dis morning; I want haben de rope and de way." Short looked at the corporal, and made no reply. "Mynheer Short, I haben tell de order of Mynheer Vanslyperken." Dick Short made no reply, but leaning over the hatchway, called out, "Jemmy."
I trust, if it be so, that when he gets into port he will report me keel-hauled?" "Keel-hauled?" "Yes, I mean dead. It is a thousand times better to pass for a dead man than a deserter." "The wisest course he could pursue, it appears to me, would be to hold his tongue probably you will not be missed." "Ah! you think that her Majesty's blue jackets can disappear in that way, like musk-rats?
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