# Goodwin Hawtayne — The White Company character guide

> Goodwin Hawtayne in The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Hawtayne, Master Hawtayne

**First appearance:** 0014-xiii-how-the-white-company-set-forth-to-the-wars

## Who they are

A master bowman and leader among the archers.

## In the story

### [How the Yellow Cog Sailed Forth from Lepe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_white_company_se/chapters/xv-how-the-yellow-cog-sailed-forth-from-lepe)

Master-shipman of the Yellow Cog; initially reluctant to engage the pirates but agrees to turn the ship into Freshwater Bay; directs the crew in battle preparations.

### [How the Yellow Cog Crossed the Bar of Gironde](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_white_company_se/chapters/xvii-how-the-yellow-cog-crossed-the-bar-of-gironde)

The master shipman is anxious about the storm and the hole in the ship, but successfully pilots the cog across the bar of Gironde.

### [XXII: How the Bowmen Held Wassail at the Rose de Guienne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_white_company_se/chapters/xxii-how-the-bowmen-held-wassail-at-the-rose-de-guienne)

The master-shipman, joins the archers for a last rouse before leaving his cog.

### [XXXVIII: Of the Homecoming to Hampshire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_white_company_se/chapters/xxxviii-of-the-homecoming-to-hampshire)

Commands the yellow cog engaged for Alleyne's journey to search for Sir Nigel.

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