David Cheap

David Cheap
Born1697 (1697)
Died21 July 1752
Scotland
AllegianceGreat Britain
Service / branchRoyal Navy
RankCaptain
CommandsHMS Tryall
HMS Wager
HMS Lark
Battles / wars

Captain David Cheap (1697 – 21 July 1752) was a Scottish Royal Navy officer.[1][2]

He is known for two incidents in his career.[1] First, he was in command of HMS Wager when it was wrecked in May 1741 on the shores of Wager Island in Chilean Patagonia. Second was his capture of a Spanish galleon in 1746, the prize of which made him a rich man.

Spain and Great Britain were at war in 1739. Cheap, then just a lieutenant, was appointed to serve under Commodore George Anson, commander of an expedition to the Pacific Ocean.[1] The original captain of Wager died, at sea, while the expedition was still navigating the South Atlantic. Anson gave Cheap acting command of the vessel.

Cheap's management of Wager, prior to the wreck, and his attempts to manage his former crew, after the wreck, continue to be discussed to the present day.[3] Cheap had been an unpopular commander, and, after the ship was wrecked, most of his crew would not follow his instructions.[1] Officer's commissions, at the time, only appointed them to command ships. Seamen's pay ended when a ship was sunk. His former crew thought his formal authority over them ended when the ship was sunk. Most of the surviving crew attempted to sail to safety in the ship's longboat, the Speedwell, under the command of the ship's former gunner, John Bulkeley. Cheap and three of his former officers were captured by Spanish authorities, and arrived back in Britain years after Bulkeley, and after Bulkeley had published an account of the voyage that showed Cheap in a poor light.

References

  1. ^ a b c d C.H. Layman (2015). The Wager Disaster: Mayhem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas. Uniform Press. ISBN 978-1-910065-51-8.
  2. ^ David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder Simon & Schuster, London (2023).
  3. ^ Dalya Alberge (29 January 2015). "Previously unpublished letter casts new light on mutiny aboard HMS Wager". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 19 July 2019. Retrieved 19 July 2019. It was one of the most barbarous catastrophes in the Royal Navy's history, but the story of the shipwreck of HMS Wager in 1741 and her crew's mutiny is largely forgotten and far less known about than the mutiny on the Bounty, which occurred almost half a century later. Now the shocking tale is recalled in a previously unpublished letter written by the Wager's captain and included in a new book by Rear Admiral CH Layman, a naval historian.

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