The Marooning of Robert Jeffery

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Robert Jeffery was eighteen years old on the 11^th December, 1807. He was regarded in the Recruit as a skulker, and, moreover, he had been flogged in November for stealing a bottle of rum out of the gunner’s cabin. Her captain came on deck at this time and, addressing Spencer, the Master, said, “Have we not some thieves on board”? That officer replied, “Yes, there are two who have been guilty of theft.” The captain then said, “Send up Jeffery here. I will not keep such a fellow in my ship”.

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Filed under: Atlantic | War of 1812 | Mutiny & Discipline | Other (Nineteenth C)
Subjects include: Manpower & Life at Sea | Navies