Justinian Nutt

Justinian Nutt
Portrait of Nutt c.1750
Born	c.1704
Died	11 December 1757 Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich
Allegiance	Great Britain
Service / branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	1728–1754
Rank	Captain
Commands	HMS Tavistock HMS Grand Turk HMS Prince Edward HMS Edinburgh HMS Tavistock HMS Anson
Battles / wars	War of the Austrian Succession George Anson's voyage around the world
Spouse(s)	Elizabeth Cooke ​ (m. 1749)​

Captain Justinian Nutt (c.1704 – 11 December 1757) was a Royal Navy officer. He joined the navy as a captain's servant and spent the first twelve years of his career as a rating. In 1740 he embarked on George Anson's voyage around the world in HMS Centurion, becoming the ship's master. As chief navigator for the expedition Nutt made several errors in the passage around Cape Horn, causing hundreds of seamen to die from scurvy and other ailments. When Centurion captured the Manila galleon Nuestra Señora de Covadonga off the Philippines in 1743, Nutt was promoted to lieutenant and catalogued the treasure in the ship.

Nutt was promoted to commander and then captain in 1745, commanding HMS Tavistock and HMS Grand Turk in the English Channel and a different HMS Tavistock in the Bay of Biscay. His last command was HMS Anson, the guardship at Portsmouth, from 1748 to 1752, during which time he sat on several court martials. Nutt retired in 1754 to become a captain of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, where he died in 1757.