When did flogging stop in the Royal Navy?

(Flogging was never abolished in the Royal Navy, though it was suspended in 1879; it was abolished in the British Army in 1888.)

What was flogging around the fleet?

A form of punishment in the old days of the British Navy for the more serious crimes committed on board. In each ship visited the crew were mustered on deck and in the rigging to witness the punishment, drums on board beating out the ‘Rogue’s March’ as the boat approached.

What does lashes as a boy mean?

When Hickey keeps mouthing off, Crozier ups it to 30 lashes, “as a boy.” For those of us not versed in 19th-century punishment lingo, what this means is that Hickey is to be lashed across his rear rather than across his back.

When did flogging end in the British army?

1888
Reforms of the British Army in 1868, included the abolition of flogging as a punishment in peacetime and reserving it as a punishment for use on active service only until, finally in 1888, it was abolished entirely.

Did sailors survive Keelhauling?

In popular culture. In the 1935 movie depiction of the mutiny on the Bounty, Captain William Bligh keelhauls a seaman, resulting in his death, but the incident is fictional. Under Bligh’s command, only two of the crew died, both of natural causes.

Was keelhauling a real punishment?

It was an official, though rare, punishment in the Dutch navy, as shown in the painting The keel-hauling of the ship’s surgeon of Admiral Jan van Nes. It is performed by plunging the delinquent repeatedly under the ship’s bottom on one side, and hoisting him up on the other, after having passed under the keel.

Is keelhauling fatal?

A keelhauling over the length would be fatal, either through drowning, or through lacerations brought by contact with the ship. A keelhauling across the width (typically about one third of a ship’s length) was a “lesser” punishment that might give the victim a fighting chance to survive.