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The yacht Mignonette was a 19.43 net t., 52-foot (16 m) cruiser built in 1867. [4] It was an inshore boat, not made for long voyages. [5] Australian lawyer Jack Want purchased it in 1883 for leisure. [4]
Accused were two crew members of an English yacht, the Mignonette, who in 1884 were shipwrecked in a storm some 1,600 miles from the Cape of Good Hope. After a few weeks adrift in a lifeboat, 17-year-old Richard Parker fell unconscious due to a combination of hunger and drinking seawater. Two of the three others on the boat decided to kill and ...
USS Mignonette was a steam operated tugboat acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
HMS Mignonette was a Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She served as an escort ship in the Battle of the Atlantic. [1]
Mignonette (yacht), built 1867, shipwrecked in 1884; cannibalism as a necessity defence for murdering crewmember Richard Parker was struck down by R v Dudley and Stephens to set an enduring legal precedent; HMS Mignonette, more than one ship of the British Royal Navy; USS Mignonette (1861), a steam operated tugboat
USS Dauntless (1861), was a side-wheel steamer renamed USS Mignonette after her transfer to the Union Navy 30 September 1862. USS Dauntless (ID-1002) , was a motor patrol boat used during World War I .
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Two vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Mignonette: HMS Mignonette (1916) , an Arabis -class sloop launched on 26 January 1916 and sunk by a mine on 17 March 1917. HMS Mignonette (K38) , a Flower-class corvette launched on 28 January 1941 and sold in 1946.