Sexual and Gender Difference in the British Navy, 1690-1900

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Sexual and Gender Difference in the British Navy, 1690-1900

LeJacq, Seth Stein

Taylor & Francis Ltd

01/2024

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9781032409900

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1: Tolerance and Punishment






"The Unnatural and Detestable Sin": The Ban on Same-Sex Contact in the Articles of War (1661 and 1749)



"He was Pleased with all his other Attempts upon Him": Relationships between Three Sailors from HMS Expedition (1705)



Vigilante Violence: An Attack on a Member of the "Vile Clan" (1731)



Avoiding Trial: A Newspaper Reports Discretionary Punishments (1735)



Sex in the Foretop: The trial of Hugh Ducaty and William Tofts (1738)



"A Very Extraordinary Kind of Sea Discipline": "Amazonian" Women Punish Buggery on HMS Princess Amelia (1742)



Punishing and Permitting Same-Sex Acts at Sea: Press Coverage (1747, 1757)



Executing a Boy for Buggery: The George Newton and Thomas Finley Trial (1761)



"I Did What I Had no Right to Do": Captain Graham Moore Chooses Summary Punishment (1788, 1793)



"Striking Examples": The Admiralty Attempts to Punish Marine James Parker (1811)



How to Prosecute Same-Sex Acts: Naval Jurist John McArthur on Buggery at Sea (1813)



"The Last Person in the Ship I Should Have Suspected": The Trial of Seaman Thomas Randall (1815)



"A Tragic Incident": Lieutenant John Towne's Account of a Buggery Hanging (1833)

Part 2: Queer Tars






"It was much better to lay with one another": Quartermaster Thomas Pike Plans an Assignation on HMS York (1701)



"An Odd Affair which Lately Happened": A Cross-Dressing Cabin Boy (1739)



"A Backdoor Man": Marine Officers Fight over Masculinity in a Plymouth Tavern (1755)



"Tender Expressions... Not Becoming Men": Intimacy Between Officers on HMS Raven (1775)



"The Little Female Tar": A Cross-Dressing Sailor Testifies in a Buggery Trial (1809)



"A Correspondence... Not Fit to be Named": Tobias Smollett's Captain Whiffle and Mr. Simper (1748)



"I am No Man to be Tried by a Court Martial": A Sailor Pleads "Neutrality of Gender" (1803)



"The Childish Vice of Boys": Adolescent Sexual Activity Aboard HMS Africaine (1816)



"A Thorn Has Been Given Him In the Flesh": Naval Officer James Woolls Describes His Same-Sex Desire (1818)

Part 3: In Print






Reports of Same-Sex Acts in Seventeenth-Century Newspapers (1650, 1654)



"Any Port in a Storm": A Sailor Risks Sodomy in Fanny Hill (1748)



The Lieutenant Thomas Wye Affair: A Buggery Case on Shore (1755-56)



"Indecent Familiarities with Mankind": William Benbow Recalls the Captain Charles Sawyer Scandal (1823)



"A Case of Unparalleled Hardship": Lieutenant Arthur W. Adair Appeals to the Nation for Justice (1807, 1809)



"A Full Acquittal": Captain Thomas G. Muston Insists on his Innocence in Print (1812)



"Familiarity with Gross Pollution": Captain Edward Hawker on Female Sex Workers and Same-Sex Intimacy in the Navy (1821)

Part 4: Naval Buggery Scandals






"Is It Not What Great Men Do?": The Edward Rigby Scandal (1698)



The HMS Stag Affair: Captain Henry Angel is Arrested by His Officers (1762, 1805)



"But for this Detestable Propensity": Lieutenant William Berry (1807)



"Guilty of an Abominable Offence": Naval Surgeon James Nehemiah Taylor (1809)

Part 5: "A Man F - g Ship": The Same-Sex Subculture on HMS Africaine






Sworn Statements from the Officers' Investigation on HMS Africaine (October-November 1815)



Sworn Statements from the Admiralty's investigation (December 1815)



Admiral Edward Thornbrough's Report on the Africaine Punishments (1816)



Press Coverage of the Africaine Trials and Punishments

Part 6: The Victorian Navy






"Considered the Prisoner as a Father": The Lieutenant Richard Inman Scandal (1838)



"So Full an Acquittal": The Trials of Lieutenant Lionel R. Place (1842)



"To Throw Himself Upon the Protection of the Publick": Defending Lieutenant Henry Stokes (1844-1845)



"Revolting Charges Against a Naval Officer": Lieutenant George Armitage Brings a Perjury Accusation (1862-1864)



"Charged with Insobriety and Indecency": The Trial of Lieutenant Frederick W. Kuper (1871)



"Foul Offence and Exemplary Punishment": The Trial and Flight of Navigating Sub-Lieutenant William Renwick (1873)



"In the Water Closet of a Cafe at Gibraltar": The Trial of Seamen Robert Simpson and Henry Keenor (1874)

Appendix A: Surviving Records of British Navy Trials Related to Sex and Gender, 1690-1900

Bibliography

Index
queer maritime history;sodomy prosecution navy;naval court martial records;gender nonconformity at sea;eighteenth century sexuality;archival research guide;same-sex relationships British naval history