It was severely punished at the British ships of deserting. The culprit was hung on boxing or rei. When he managed to escape in the list of incurring by his name, a gallows were drawn. This meant that it was removed from the law. Thefts were also punished strictly in the trade fleet. The thief shaved his head, and then poured tar and sprinkled with a feathers. Punished at the nearby opportunity, the inscription "thief" was suspended with the inscription hung on his neck. Every sailor who approprias his friend's property was removed from the ship. First, however, he was dragged under the keel, and then attached to Łódź pulled behind the stern and held until the ship was wrapped. Over time, thefts were most often punished .
Sleeping on the watch was one of the most common offenses. The culprit attached to the mast the first time and poured a bucket of water on his head. After the second and third offense, the arms were punished by the arms, inflicting pain. The recidivist was punished with hunger death, especially then, when the ship was entered due to his guilt.
In the second half of the 18th century on war ships, rarely only on commercial ships, the penalty penalty was still used under the keel. It was a cruel punishment, often ending with death, and at best with disability. Sailor, towards which the penalty penalty was applied under the keel, was exposed to three basic dangers: drowning-if it was dragged for too long under the bottom of the ship, body mutilation with sharp shells, which the underwater part of the hull has grown up, Finally, the alach of sharks-if the punishment was measured in the waters of the southern seas.
The punishment of dragging under the keel was about it , that the culprit was tied with a string under the arms or by the hands and legs, then it was immersed in the water and slowly dragged under the ship's keel, once on the left, Once on the right side. After pulling three times under the keel, a sailor was punished, Even if he was not injured, died as a result of drowning.
On the British ships for raising his hand to a supervisor or threatening him punished with cutting his right hand. If he had committed this act again, or for the second time he would refuse to follow the order, He was punished with death by hanging.
The verdict was carried out in the presence of the entire crew. The ship's commander personally moved the rope through the Noku Rei block, and then he gave the commands needed to perform the penalty. A convict pulled up to the Noku Rei, He had to stay there for half an hour. This kind of punishment threatened, among others, for the abuse of God's name, bunt, cowardice, desertion, recruitment fraud consisting of this, that the sailor was bruting on several ships at the same time and received an advance from everyone. This penalty is also imposed in the event of premature launch from an officer's work or hitting.
For the last two crimes, The Penal Code predicted the conversion of the death penalty for another. In the first case, Instead of the death penalty, only a fine could be applied - the project cost of the missile. However, this was tantamount to the complete financial ruin of the guilty. In the second case, the convict had the right to choose himself-between the punishment by hanging and flogging on all squadrons or group ships. The final effect was usually identical . If the sailor chose the flogging after all , At that time, the bosun attached him to a special stool and picked a launch of all nearby units, where a certain number of strokes faced him. When the convict died during the execution, the penalty was not interrupted.
About 1750 The year's ranged judgments have become more severe and more brutal. It lasted until the beginning of the next century, But only about a year 1830 The first decisive step was taken to limit the use of a bodily penalty in war fleets
Judgments of the English Military Court in the years 1700 i 1746 indicate that they were judged 342 sailors, of this 74 acquitted, The others 268 sentences are usually death penalties or flogging .
Death sentences were very common , Because at that time no other penalty was anticipated in the case of desertion, which was a political crime. In the registers of the Military Court you can find such examples confirming the above assumptions, np. a year 1703 Two sailors were sentenced to death for desertion, but given great losses in people, which the British fleet suffered, They were ultimately pardoned .
Sometimes due to lack of people( In the case of judging more than one person)a dice projection was demanded that decided who of the judged would be hung.
Carcothed in the on -board work of the seafarers, often hitting a woven cable or a stick. More rebellious to the orders of the supervisor, punishable by placing in the mouth of the bit like horses and embedded them on the bom, attaching weights to the cubes, and then cooling their bare backs .
With the age of the 19th century, the brutality of penalties decreased. The flogging penalty was most often used, which sometimes ended in death (Sometimes 500-600bats were measured).
W 1830 r. corporal penalties were limited and the maximum amount of lashes was reduced. The flogging penalty in the English jacket lasts until the mid -nineteenth century, and in 1879 the year is officially lifted, Although its use was stopped a little earlier .
The last known case of imposing a flogging penalty took place in the English fleet in 1882 .
The punishment of sailors reached its apogee in the 18th century, Gradually in the following years in the following years. Today, such cruel penalties are no longer used, and dragging under the keel, or other such sanctions, We can only find surprise and condemnation in modern man in sailor stories.