Navigating the Lower Saint Lawrence in the 19th Century.
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Minutes taken at a Court Martial assembled on board His Majesty's Ship Gladiator in Portsmouth Harbour on the twenty first day of July 1815 and continued by adjournment on the following day. |
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Present: | ||
| Peter Halkett, Esquire, Read Admiral of the White and Second Officer in the Command of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels at Spithead and in Portsmouth Harbour .................... President |
| Captains Willoughby, Thomas Lake, Captains Bery William Page | |||
| Zachariah Mudge, | Sir George Ralph Collier, Bart and K.G.B. | ||
| Sir William Bolton Knt | Sir Francis Alexander Gordon K.G.B. | ||
| John Cramer | Alexander Robert Kerr | ||
| Edmund Boger | The Honorable Anthony Maitland, | ||
| Hyde Parker | Samuel Jackson | ||
Captain James Galloway and the Officers and Company of His Majesty's late troop ship Penelope, were brought in and audience admitted. The Order from the Right Honorable Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated the 19th of July, 1815 and directed to the President setting forth. That Commodore Sir E. W. C. R. Owen, K.C.B. had transmitted to their Lordships a letter dated the 23rd of May, 1815, from James Galloway, Esquire, Commander of His Majesty's late troop ship Penelope detailing the particular circumstances attending the loss of the said troop ship on the night of the 30th of the preceding month about three or four leagues to the eastward of Magdalen River, coast of Lower Canada, and directing a Court Martial to be assembled to inquire into the cause and circumstances attending the loss of His Majesty's late troop ship Penelope and to try Captain James Galloway, his Officers and surviving ship's company for their conduct upon that occasion, was read: Mr. Walter Heel, Surgeon of His Majesty's ship Albion, being sworn, stated that Captain Philip Somerville, her Commander, was ill and incapable of attending his duty as a Member of the Court without danger to his health. The President reported to the Court that Captains Hugh Pigot, Sir Edward Tucker, K.G.B. and Samuel Chambers were absent on Admiralty leave. The Members of the Court and the Judge Advocate, then in open court and before they proceeded to trial, respectively took the several oaths enjoined and directed, in and by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the twenty second year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second intituled "An Act for amending, explaining and reducing into one Act of Parliament, the laws relating to the Government of His Majesty's Ships, vessels and Forces by sea." The letter from Captain James Galloway detailing the particular circumstances attending the loss of His Majesty's late troop ship Penelope was read, and is hereto annexed. Captain Galloway produced a memorandum which was read and is hereto annexed. Captain Galloway delivered a list of men who conducted themselves improperly after the ship struck. |
Christopher Birche Joseph Cooper John Dudding Rohn Rowill |
Punished on shore for their misconduct. |
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| William Hasnell | He was not punished, having become ill, and is now at Haslar Hospital. | ||
| Walter Howell | A prisoner present. | ||
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