Mad Jack Percival's U.S.S. Dolphin,
a 12 gun schooner, was the first U.S. Navy ship to visit
the Hawaiian islands. In 1826 she was sent to the Pacific
to bring the mutineers of a whaling ship to justice and
to enforce the settlement of debts owed by Hawai'i's ruling
chiefs.
In Honolulu her crew rebelled
against the missionaries' strict ban prohibiting native
women from swimming out to meet the ships. Mad Jack helped
quell his own rioting crew, beating them with a whalebone
cane, but he also negotiated a lifting of the ban.
Today U.S. Destroyer squadrons
based in Pearl Harbor annually celebrate "Mad Jack
Percival Day" in the Captain's honor.
36 x 50 in. oil on canvas
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