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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 ...
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
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.
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