The Court
Vice-Admiral Lord Hood - President
According to Haywood, Lord Hood offered him a place in his flag ship Victory immediately after he had received his Royal Pardon.
Sir Andrew Snape Hammond
Sir Andrew Hammond became Comptroller (Navy Board) in 1794, and had a running battle with Earl St Vincent, First Lord of the Admialty, over the building of more 74 gun ships. The relationship got so bad that the Navy Board complained, in 1804, of the indignities, the unjust reproofs and reprimands and the harsh and severe language which have been exercised towards us during the last two years.
Admiral Sir John Colpoys
Colpoys was a severe disciplinarian who gained an unenviable reputation below decks. During the Spithead mutiny in 1797 he ordered the marines to open fire on unarmed mutineers. In the peace settlement negotiated between Lord Howe and the mutineers leaders, Colpoys headed the list of officers the seamen insisted were to be sent ashore if they were to return to duty. The Admiralty agreed and Colpoys lost his command.
Sir Roger Curtis
In the mutiny of 1797, Sir Roger Curtis was made prisoner and the ships in his squadron were sailed by the men to join the mutineers at Spithead. Of the 101 officers, warrant officers and midshipmen sent ashore under the agreement that ended the mutiny, more than half came from the eight ships in Curtis's squadron. He was to become a warm and sincere friend of Peter Heywood.
Captain John Thomas Duckworth
Another of the captains overthrown by the mutineers in 1797. He told his men, "Captain Duckworth has resolved never to command such a set of villains till he has proved to the world through a vourt martial your baseness and his innocence." Next day the Royal Pardon arrived and he resumed command. Nobody was court martialled.
Captain John Nicholson Ingelfield
Ingelfield distinguished himself by capturing the Cesar in 1782 with the loss of only eight of his men. But a rascal of a marine corporal searching for rum with the aid of a candle set the ship alight and thirty more men perished in the fire.
Captain John Knight
During the Nore mutiny in 1979aptain Knight acted as a go-between having won the respect and confidence of the leading mutineer Richard Parker. Knight was later called as a defence witness at Parker's trial.
Captain Albemarle Bertie
Captain Bertie was related by marraige to Peter Haywoods family. He provided Haywood with money while he was held prisoner in he Hector and his wife corresponded with Haywood's mother during the trial assuring her that her son's life was more safe at that time than it had been befor his arrest. It was also from Captain Bertie's ship Triumph that Bligh in 1787 managed to get Thomas Ledward as an assistant surgeon to replace the drunken Huggan on the Bounty.
Sir Richard Goodwin Keats
Captain Keats was among those officers put ashore during the Plymouth mutiny of 1797 from the Galatea, the ship having returned to port expressly for that purpose.
