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From: "Meg Naylor" <>
Subject: Re: [PJ] PJ Ships A - Albemarle
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 13:21:53 +1000
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Well, well, well I wonder if our John Wood was involved. One can only try to
understand just how terrible these people wold have felt. Being send to the
bottom of the world with no idea what was ahead of them.

Wonderful stuff Lesley. Many thanks :))) and I am being careful to send my
emails to PJ and not to you

Thanks again

By the was is this sort of thing what you have on your new CD or is it only
references to these HRA

Meg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lesley Uebel" <>
To: "J & M" <>;
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Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 2:04 PM
Subject: RE: [PJ] PJ Ships A - Albemarle


In a letter from Governor Phillip to Secretary Stephens on 18 November 1791
(HRA)

"Lieutenant Robert Parry Young, who came out as Naval Agent in the
Albemarle,
has, I presume, informed their Lordships of the convicts having mutinied on
board that ship during the passage, and the necessity he was under of
executing
two of the ringleaders"

The following account of the attempted mutiny is preserved. It was forwarded
from Madeira, dated 24th April 1791, and was probably written by Lieutenant
Young, who was in charge of the Albemarle.

"On the 9th instant, in latitude 44° 30' north, longitude 15° 20' west, a
number
of the convicts were admitted upon deck early for the benefit of fresh air.
In a
favourable opportunity (when the principal part of the watch was aloft about
the
rigging) they made an attempt to take the ship from us, having previously
prepared themselves over night for that purpose. They began with knocking
down
the sentinels and taking their arms from them, which they easily effected,
and
were actually making their way aft to the cabin, the principal ringleader
going
to the helm with a cutlass in his hand he had just taken from one of the
sentinels to cut down the helmsman and take possession of the wheel; but,
very
fortunate for us all, I was upon deck at the time they began the
insurrection,
and immediately ran to the cabin for my blunderbuss, met and shot the
ringleader
in the right shoulder; feeling the smart of the wound, he down cutlass and
ran;
the others seeing their principal hero flying, immediately followed his
example,
and flew to the prison room and forehold, and left me in possession of the
deck.
I then mustered all hands under arms, and sent a party below to search for
those
that had secreted themselves; found three of the principals; the first two
got
up instantly confessed the whole plot, and that the other two were the
ringleaders and the original instigators of this horrid scene; upon this
information, and one of them being the man I had wounded, it was unanimously
thought proper for the future preservation of the ship and our lives, and to
strike terror in the convicts, immediately to hang the two last at the
fore-yard-arm; this had the desired effect upon the convicts in general, who
immediately sent us a letter confessing all their horrid intensions, and of
taking the ship to America.

We are now very peaceable and I am in hopes shall continue so during the
remainder of the voyage. The Matilda parted company the first night we left
Portsmouth, the Active and Britannia on the night of the 3rd, and the
Admiral
Barrington on the 7th in hard gale of wind, so that we had no ship in
company."

Lesley Uebel
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