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U.S.S.
Dolphin Departing Honolulu
The "Mad Jack Percival Day"
tradition is born, May 11, 1826
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.
22 x 30 in. lithograph - 275 edition
(remarques available)
original
available
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