James Stout

Yeah.

Seems like a pretty important thing to check.

Yeah.

Likewise, the lawyers point out that the Gregson syndicate had a responsibility to hire a competent captain.

Not only was Collingswood not that, but when he got sick, he passed on command to a demonstrably incompetent man when a skilled sailor and navigator was locked in his room forbidden from doing his job.

It was not the sea's fault or the underwriter's responsibility if the syndicate hired a captain who couldn't, and this is a line from the court case, tell Hispaniola from Jamaica.

Wow.

Real burn on the dead guy.

That's a burn in the 18th century.

Now, much of the case came down to the fact that further interrogation of the ship's stores and the actual documentation of their journey showed that when they landed in Jamaica, they had days of water left.

And if they'd been close to running out, there were again multiple islands they could have gone to to get their water within a day or so.

In addition to that, on the stand, Stubbs revealed that it had rained several times near the end of the journey, and he'd failed to have the crew collect rainwater.

Stubbs really continues to fucking ruin everything he does.

Should we get water?

No, let's just kill some more guys.

Yeah, that's fine.

Sorry, kill some more women and children.

Yeah.

Fuck.

So this case, which had been rushed through the first time, on second viewing seemed much more disturbing, even to skeptics like Mansfield.