Episode 257 - The Mocha
The Pirate History Podcast
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Captain Edgecombe Punched Captain Lecky
Captain leonard edgecombe ordered the surgeon keel hauled for this impertinence. The crew of the moca agreed, but they refused to do it to the doctor. This almost turned into a mutiny right there. They were refusing a direct order from the captain. But i can see that it did not turn to violence because they were less than a day from bombay. When the moca frigate arrived at bombay, fully half the crew left her decks. Captain edgecombe might have punished them or stopped them, but had he tried to do so, he ably would have been killed. He needed crewmen, and he had several ways to acquire crewmen.
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