Colonist (1861) Reef with two carpenters as well as caulkers and riggers. At this stage they had already partially succeeded in getting the vessel off the reef. By November the ketch had again returned from the wreck site with cargo from both the "Colonist" as well as the "Douglas", and the scene was described as: that masts and yards as well as hull of the Colonist are as sound as the day she was built She has been thoroughly caulked from keel to covering board, and is now quite tight, her rigging has been refitted and sails bent The tides have been
Jack Ketch took his place, but on 28 May, following his conviction for robbery, Rose himself was hanged at Tyburn and Ketch reinstated. Ketch died in November 1686. In 1836 a fictitious autobiography of Ketch, with illustrations from designs by Meadows entitled "The autobiography of Jack Ketch", was published. Another book entitled "Life of Jack Ketch with Cuts of his own Execution" was furnished by Tom Hood for the Duke of Devonshire's library at Chatsworth. Jack Ketch is one of the characters in Giovanni Piccini (d.1835) "The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Punch and Judy" as dictated to John Payne Collier,