A Cabin boy or ship's boy is a boy (in the sense of low-ranking male employee, not always a minor) who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship,[1] especially running errands for the captain. BOY is a Canadian Indie pop band The band consists of vocalist and general instrumentalist Stephen Kozmeniuk, drummer Maurie Kaufmann, A ship /ʃɪp/ is a large vessel that floats on water Ships are generally distinguished from Boats based on size
In the famous trial of Regina v. Dudley & Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273 DC, two sailors and a cabin boy were shipwrecked and cast adrift in a small boat without provisions. R v Dudley and Stephens ( 14 QBD 273 DC is a leading English criminal case that established a Precedent, throughout the Common law Year 1884 ( MDCCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Case citation is the system used in many countries to identify the decisions in past Court cases either in special series of books called reporters A shipwreck can refer to a wrecked ship or to the event that caused the wreck such as the striking of something that causes the ship to sink the stranding of the ship on rocks To save themselves, the sailors killed and ate the cabin boy. Cannibalism (from Spanish es ''caníbal'' in connection with cannibalism among the Antillean Caribs, also called anthropophagy (from Greek ἄνθρωπος They were later convicted of murder, despite their claimed defense of necessity. In English law, murder is considered the most serious form of Homicide, in which one person kills another either intending to cause death or intending to For the discussion on general principles and policy see Necessity In English law, the defence of necessity recognises that there may [2]
Popular Culture
- Cabin Boy, a 1994 film
- Captain Pugwash, a British television children's animated series about a hapless Captain and his crew; Tom, the cabin boy, is depicted as the most intelligent member of the crew. A Cabin boy or ship's boy is a Boy (in the sense of low-ranking male employee not always a minor who waits on the officers and passengers of a Ship, especially Captain Pugwash is a fictional pirate in a series of British children's Comic strips, books and animated films
- Treasure Island, where the main character Jim serves as a cabin boy on the boarding of the ship the Hispaniola. Treasure Island is an adventure Novel by author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold"
References
- ^ Concise Oxford Dictionary, Oxford University Press 1999, entry "Cabin boy"
- ^ Simpson, A. W. B. (1984). Cannibalism and the Common Law: The Story of the Tragic Last Voyage of the Mignonette and the Strange Legal Proceedings to Which It Gave Rise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226759425.