Cyprus mutiny Cyprus mutiny The "Cyprus" mutiny took place in 1829 off the British penal settlement of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania, Australia). Convicts seized the brig and sailed her to Canton, China, where they scuttled her and claimed to be castaways from another vessel. On the way, "Cyprus" visited Japan during the height of the period of severe Japanese restrictions on the entry of foreigners, the first Australian ship to do so. The mutineers were eventually captured. Two of them, George James Davis and William Watts, were hanged at Execution Dock, London on 16 December 1830, the last men hanged for
George Davis (editor) a hub of cultural activities in New York. Figures like Benjamin Britten, W. H. Auden and Carson McCullers were live-in guests. A study of 7 Middagh Street, entitled "February House", was published in 2005. He died of a heart attack in Berlin, where he had been helping his wife, singer Lotte Lenya, make recordings. A literary satire of George Davis was written by Truman Capote in the form of the character "Boaty" in his unfinished work "". George Davis (editor) George Davis (February 4, 1906—November 25, 1957) was an American fiction editor and novelist. The youngest of five boys (the