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Encyclopedia: Articles of War (487 words) |
 | Article Nine states that when any ship or vessel is taken as a prize, none of the officers, mariners, or others aboard her will be stripped of their clothes or in any way pillaged, beaten, or abused. |
| Article Twenty-one orders that any "complaint of the unwholesomeness of the victuals, or upon other just ground," be quietly made known to a superior officer and that the officer should then do whatever is in his power to rectify the situation. |
| Articles Thirty-four and Thirty-five state that anyone "being in actual service and full pay, and part of the crew in or belonging to any of his Majesty's ships or vessels of war" is liable to trial by court-martial for offenses and to the corresponding punishment as if committed on board ship at sea. |
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