- Historic Sites The Revolution’s Caine Mutiny In Pierre Landais
the Continental Navy had its own real-life Commander Queeg. His
tour as master of the Alliance was a nightmare wilder than any a
novelist could invent April 1960 | Volume 11, Issue 3 And there
were still other mutinies to be recorded on the log of the
Alliance. On his initial cruise on Landais’ ship Barry was
forced to report: “I believe a ship never put to sea in a worse
condition as to seamen.” For disobeying orders under fire three
sailors were tried for a breach of the twenty-ninth article of
the Navy Rules which fixed the penalty for desertion and
cowardice. One of the accused was sentenced to receive 354
lashes on the bare back; the second to wear a halter across his
neck and to receive fifty lashes; and the third to “be hanged by
the starboard foreyard arm of the said ship Alliance until he is
dead.” But the sentences were never carried out. John Brown,
secretary to the Agent of Marine, visited Boston some months
after the trials and repo