Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Tolerance and Punishment "The Unnatural and Detestable Sin": The Ban on Same-Sex Contact in the Articles of War (1661 and 1749) "He was Pleased with all his other Attempts upon Him": Relationships between Three Sailors from HMS Expedition (1705) Vigilante Violence: An Attack on a Member of the "Vile Clan" (1731) Avoiding Trial: A Newspaper Reports Discretionary Punishments (1735) Sex in the Foretop: The trial of Hugh Ducaty and William Tofts (1738) "A Very Extraordinary Kind of Sea Discipline": "Amazonian" Women Punish Buggery on HMS Princess Amelia (1742) Punishing and Permitting Same-Sex Acts at Sea: Press Coverage (1747, 1757) Executing a Boy for Buggery: The George Newton and Thomas Finley Trial (1761) "I Did What I Had no Right to Do": Captain Graham Moore Chooses Summary Punishment (1788, 1793) "Striking Examples": The Admiralty Attempts to Punish Marine James Parker (1811) How to Prosecute Same-Sex Acts: Naval Jurist John McArthur on Buggery at Sea (1813) "The Last Person in the Ship I Should Have Suspected": The Trial of Seaman Thomas Randall (1815) "A Tragic Incident": Lieutenant John Towne''s Account of a Buggery Hanging (1833) Part 2: Queer Tars "It was much better to lay with one another": Quartermaster Thomas Pike Plans an Assignation on HMS York (1701) "An Odd Affair which Lately Happened": A Cross-Dressing Cabin Boy (1739) "A Backdoor Man": Marine Officers Fight over Masculinity in a Plymouth Tavern (1755) "Tender Expressions. Not Becoming Men": Intimacy Between Officers on HMS Raven (1775) "The Little Female Tar": A Cross-Dressing Sailor Testifies in a Buggery Trial (1809) "A Correspondence. Not Fit to be Named": Tobias Smollett''s Captain Whiffle and Mr. Simper (1748) "I am No Man to be Tried by a Court Martial": A Sailor Pleads "Neutrality of Gender" (1803) "The Childish Vice of Boys": Adolescent Sexual Activity Aboard HMS Africaine (1816) "A Thorn Has Been Given Him In the Flesh": Naval Officer James Woolls Describes His Same-Sex Desire (1818) Part 3: In Print Reports of Same-Sex Acts in Seventeenth-Century Newspapers (1650, 1654) "Any Port in a Storm": A Sailor Risks Sodomy in Fanny Hill (1748) The Lieutenant Thomas Wye Affair: A Buggery Case on Shore (1755-56) "Indecent Familiarities with Mankind": William Benbow Recalls the Captain Charles Sawyer Scandal (1823) "A Case of Unparalleled Hardship": Lieutenant Arthur W. Adair Appeals to the Nation for Justice (1807, 1809) "A Full Acquittal": Captain Thomas G. Muston Insists on his Innocence in Print (1812) "Familiarity with Gross Pollution": Captain Edward Hawker on Female Sex Workers and Same-Sex Intimacy in the Navy (1821) Part 4: Naval Buggery Scandals "Is It Not What Great Men Do?": The Edward Rigby Scandal (1698) The HMS Stag Affair: Captain Henry Angel is Arrested by His Officers (1762, 1805) "But for this Detestable Propensity": Lieutenant William Berry (1807) "Guilty of an Abominable Offence": Naval Surgeon James Nehemiah Taylor (1809) Part 5: "A Man F - g Ship": The Same-Sex Subculture on HMS Africaine Sworn Statements from the Officers'' Investigation on HMS Africaine (October-November 1815) Sworn Statements from the Admiralty''s investigation (December 1815) Admiral Edward Thornbrough''s Report on the Africaine Punishments (1816) Press Coverage of the Africaine Trials and Punishments Part 6: The Victorian Navy "Considered the Prisoner as a Father": The Lieutenant Richard Inman Scandal (1838) "So Full an Acquittal": The Trials of Lieutenant Lionel R. Place (1842) "To Throw Himself Upon the Protection of the Publick": Defending Lieutenant Henry Stokes (1844-1845) "Revolting Charges Against a Naval Officer": Lieutenant George Armitage Brings a Perjury Accusation (1862-1864) "Charged with Insobriety and Indecency": The Trial of Lieutenant Frederick W. Kuper (1871) "Foul Offence and Exemplary Punishment": The Trial and Flight of Navigating Sub-Lieutenant William Renwick (1873) "In the Water Closet of a Café at Gibraltar": The Trial of Seamen Robert Simpson and Henry Keenor (1874) Appendix A: Surviving Records of British Navy Trials Related to Sex and Gender, 1690-1900 Bibliography Index.