Cook and Able Seaman on board the Bounty.
A loyalist.
Hall was 38 years old when he mustered on the Bounty. Evidently it was not easy to be a ship's cook under Bligh, because of the scanty rations he ordered to be issued to the men. Morrison writes: "The quantity was so small, that it was no uncommon thing for four men in a mess to draw for the breakfast, and to devide their bread by the well known method of 'who shall have this,' nor was the officers a hair behind the men at it. . . . the division of [the] scanty allowance caused frequent broils in the gally, and in the present bad weather [off Cape Horn] was often like to be attended with bad consequences and in one of these disputes the cook, Thos Hall, got two of his ribbs broke & at another time Churchill got his hand scalded and it became at least necessary to have the Mrs mate of the watch to superintend the division of it."
On the morning of the mutiny, he was sitting with Muspratt, the assistant cook by the starboard fore scuttle splitting wood for the galley. His actions during the mutiny seem to have involved bringing up provisions for the launch. Otherwise, there is very little mention of Hall in the literature of the Bounty. Weakened by the open-boat voyage he died from a tropical disease (probably malaria) in Batavia on October 11, 1789.
Cook and Able Seaman on board the Bounty.
A loyalist.
Hall was 38 years old when he mustered on the Bounty. Evidently it was not easy to be a ship's cook under Bligh, because of the scanty rations he ordered to be issued to the men. Morrison writes: "The quantity was so small, that it was no uncommon thing for four men in a mess to draw for the breakfast, and to devide their bread by the well known method of 'who shall have this,' nor was the officers a hair behind the men at it. . . . the division of [the] scanty allowance caused frequent broils in the gally, and in the present bad weather [off Cape Horn] was often like to be attended with bad consequences and in one of these disputes the cook, Thos Hall, got two of his ribbs broke & at another time Churchill got his hand scalded and it became at least necessary to have the Mrs mate of the watch to superintend the division of it."
On the morning of the mutiny, he was sitting with Muspratt, the assistant cook by the starboard fore scuttle splitting wood for the galley. His actions during the mutiny seem to have involved bringing up provisions for the launch. Otherwise, there is very little mention of Hall in the literature of the Bounty. Weakened by the open-boat voyage he died from a tropical disease (probably malaria) in Batavia on October 11, 1789.
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