by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Deans, Robert (1823)
“ Collymore had, by his disgraceful behaviour in the Childers, forfeited the good wishes and opinions and respect of all the officers and ship’s company, who had witnessed, in so many instances, his insubordinate and unofficerlike conduct, and who had heard him acknowledge having committed the outrage I have described, which he, but a few hours previously, in their presence, denied all knowledge of. ”
by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Deans, Robert (1823)
“ President and Gentlemen, I beg to observe, that I am not aware that I am deprived, as a commander of one of H.M. ships of war, of the power of putting any petty officer or seaman in irons, whose conduct, from disobedience of the positive orders of his superior, amounts to a species of mutiny, and consequently demands severity of punishment. ”
by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Deans, Robert (1823)
“ Collymore up in the main-top, which measure I beg to assure this Hon. Court I was compelled to resort to, in consequence of his direct disobedience of my orders, in the presence of the whole of my officers and ship’s company. And here I beg to state, that I consider it as a principle due to the discipline necessary to be maintained on board all of H.M. ships, that the opposition of an inferior to a superior, cannot be permitted without striking at the very root of discipline ”
