Philadelphia, PA: L. Definition of "flog" To punish by striking with the cat-o'nine-tails. This punishment is now forbidden in our [US Navy] service, though quite common in some others, particularly the Russian.
To flog the [hour] glass , to agitate and so hasten the flow of sand through it; sometimes practiced in early days by midshipmen eager for their watch to be up. It consisted of nine pieces of cord, with three knots in each, fixed on a short piece of thick rope as a handle. With this the offender was flogged on the bare back. Naval History and Heritage Command. Print Friendly. The Sextant. Social Media.
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The likelihood of death by slow hanging was a real deterrent. Being a capital punishment, sailors could not be sentenced to hanging without an official Court Martial.
Here, they were given an opportunity to plead their case in front of a panel of high-ranking officers. If found guilty, their punishment was gruesome. Their hands and feet would be bound, to prevent any possibility of escape. Then a noose would be placed around their neck. That line would run through a tackle, or pulley, hanging from the yard-arm a large pole going across the mast. This was done as a powerful deterrent, and the entire crew was made to watch, and understand what was happening.
The end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century saw some of the most severe punishments from the Royal Navy. The Navy was larger than it had ever been. The sailors were mostly pressed into service. The Royal Navy needed a way to ensure they would not rebel or refuse their duty. Corporal punishment was viewed as the only effective deterrent for ill-disciplined sailors and boys. The legislation outlawed flogging specifically, but did not outlaw all forms of corporal punishment.
Immediately after the disuse of the cat numerous complaints reached the Navy Department of insubordination and serious irregularities among the seamen. Desertions increased, and many good seamen, concerned about the lack of discipline, refused to enlist. Naval officers searched for alternative forms of punishment for malefactors, including tattooing, branding, wearing signs of disgrace, confinement in sweatboxes, lashing with thumbs behind the back, tricing up by the wrists, continuous dousing with sea water, straight jackets, and confinement in irons on bread and water.
Officers objected to long confinement as a punishment because it removed the sailor from the work force and increased the workload of the innocent. When Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed on his famous mission to Japan to open that nation to contact with the west —54 , he did so without benefit of a new set of disciplinary regulations.
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