Lord Byron dogs into the water, each with an arm in the ship Captain’s new scarlet waistcoat, to the annoyance of the Captain and the amusement of the crew. Byron had a great love of animals, most notably for a Newfoundland dog named Boatswain. When the animal contracted rabies, Byron nursed him, albeit unsuccessfully, without any thought or fear of becoming bitten and infected. Although deep in debt at the time, Byron commissioned an impressive marble funerary monument for Boatswain at Newstead Abbey, larger than his own, and the only building work which he ever carried out on his estate. In his
Boatswain Point, South Australia locality called "Boatswain Point" which is itself is reportedly named after a local person known as “Tom the Bosun” who profited from ferrying from ships off the coast and guiding them to the goldfields in Victoria during the 1850s. In 1977, the name was used for a private sub-division in part section 477 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Waterhouse. The locality overlooks to its west, a portion of the continental coastline located just north of Guichen Bay and to its south, the coastline of the bay from Cape Thomas in the west to Boatswains Point in the