| Ship name |
HMS Boscawen |
| Type |
Line of battleship |
| Construction |
Wood |
| Guns |
72 |
| Displacement |
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| Complement |
650 |
| Years covered below |
May 1857 - Sept 1860 |
| Captain |
Ashmore Powell |
| Commander |
Maximillian Elliott (caused mutiny by cruelty, dismissed by Adml. Grey) |
| Repl. Commander |
Veitch |
| Named officers: |
Mr Domville, Captain of Marines |
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Mr Samaurey, First Lieutenant |
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Admiral Sir Frederick and Lady Grey (joined at Simon's Bay) |
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Flag-Lieutenant Sullivan (Adml. Grey's party) |
| Named crew: |
Tom Richards (main royal-yard boy, port watch) |
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Beetson (carpenter) |
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John Ward (boatswain) |
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Tommy Hogg (Captain, main-top, taken ill at Cape and died)) |
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Harry Moore (leading hand - joined HMS Sappho at Simon's Bay - Sappho lost) |
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Jack Smith |
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Tom Elert (black, rescued from slavery by by H.M. Brig Elert) |
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Jerry Coward (main top-gallant yardman - flogged for insubordination, 3 dozen) |
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Curtis (chief boatswain's mate) |
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Pethick (Captain's joiner - flogged 3 dozen for outside dockyard gate without permit ) |
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Child (first class boy, mizen top, caned 3 dozen for stealing piece of biscuit) |
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Jack (ship's sheep) |
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"Rough" Hill (lost overboard) |
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Jack Nooks (Captain main-top) |
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Miller (ship's cook) |
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Jack Horne (leading hand) |
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Jack Abrams (fatal fall from rigging) |
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Alfred Roberts (yeoman of signals) |
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Mr Lawson (Master at Arms) |
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Delaney (mutineer, flogged ) |
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Jordan, (main topman, flogged 3 doz for insubordination)) |
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40 Khroomen (shipped on board at Sierra Leone) |
| 1857 |
Location |
| 37817 |
Devonport (towed as far as Land's End by "Avon" paddle-wheeler) |
| c. 24 July |
Madeira |
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Table Bay (attempted mutiny against Commander Elliott, Delaney flogged, 52 lashes) |
| September |
Simon's Bay |
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| 1858 - 1860 |
Simon's Bay (Mutiny against Commander Elliott, Admiral Grey dismisses him) |
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Jamestown, Georgetown (Ascension Island), Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mourania |
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Accra, Cape Coast Castle, Princes Island, St Paul de Loando, Benguela |
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Simon's Bay, Tamatave, (Madagascar), Mauritius, Reunion, Comoros |
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Cape, Simon's Bay, Saldanha Bay, Simon's Bay, East London |
| c. June 1860 |
Cape (orders for home), St Helena, Ascension |
| 03-Sep |
English Channel |
| 04-Sep |
Devonport |
| 14-Sep |
Payoff |
