Captain Cuttle 1927. He died at the Mirafiori stud, near Turin in 1932 after breaking his back in a freak accident. The name "Captain Cuttle" was taken from a character in Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens, Captain Edward Cuttle. It was subsequently applied to an LNER Class A3 locomotive, No. 2745 (BR number 60091), many of which class were named for racehorses. Captain Cuttle Captain Cuttle was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He ran only six times in a career which was restricted by chronic injury problems. He was the outstanding British colt of his generation, winning The Derby and
HMS Cuttle (1807) others. His gibbet joined three others across the harbour on McNabs Island who had been executed for mutiny aboard the "Cruizer"-class brig-sloop HMS "Columbine" in the same year. In 1810 "Cuttle" was under the command of Lieutenant Michael Molloy, off North America. In June 1811 she was under Lieutenant William L. Patterson, who in 1812 was with her in Portsmouth. On 24 July 1812 she captured the American vessel "Laura". "Cuttle" was then under a Lieutenant Saunders. The "Mary", which "Cuttle" had detained as she was sailing from Rio de Janeiro to New York, came into Bermuda on 15 August.