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Keelhauling (Dutch kielhalen; [1] "to drag along the keel") is a form of punishment and potential execution once meted out to sailors at sea. The sailor was tied to a line looped beneath the vessel, thrown overboard on one side of the ship, and dragged under the ship's keel , either from one side of the ship to the other, or the length of the ...
Operation Keelhaul was a forced repatriation of Soviet citizens and members of the Soviet Army in the West to the Soviet Union (although it often included former soldiers of the Russian Empire or Russian Republic, who did not have Soviet citizenship) after World War II.
First used in the United States in 1924, nitrogen hypoxia has been adopted by Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Oklahoma as a secondary method. The gas chamber in general is legal in Arizona, California, Missouri, and Wyoming as a secondary method. Decapitation: Used at various points in history in many countries.
Bligh is initially depicted as a brutal, sadistic disciplinarian, only becoming more sympathetic during the voyage to Timor. Particular episodes include a keelhauling and flogging a dead man. Neither of these happened. Keelhauling was used rarely, if at all, and had been abandoned long before Bligh's time.
BTW, the German article adds 1.) that keelhauling could be performed both from one side of the ship to the other or from bow to stern, and 2.) that the corpus iuris militaris (1723) of the Holy Roman Empire includes a passage saying that a watchkeeper found sleeping should be keelhauled three times, and 3.) that the scraping due to keelhauling ...
Boiling to death was employed again in 1542 for a woman who also used poison. [6] [7] It was also used for counterfeiters, swindlers and coin forgers during the Middle Ages. [8] A large cauldron was filled with water, oil, tar, tallow or molten lead. The liquid was then boiled. Sometimes the victim would be placed in the cauldron before it was ...
Keelhauling, a form of corporal punishment used against sailors; Operation Keelhaul, the repatriation of Russian prisoners of war after World War II; Keelhaul (band), American band from Ohio; Keel-Haul (G.I. Joe), a character in the fictional G.I. Joe universe
The Keelhauler mascot was chosen as Cal Maritime's athletic mascot by cadets in 1974, the name taken from a form of corporal punishment that was formerly used in the Dutch and English navies. Keelhauling involved tying the hands of a crewmember to a rope and hauling him under the keel of the ship. While the practice of keelhauling was formally ...