Tag Archives: Mutiny
The Gale at the Nore. Part 7. Retribution.
With Richard Parker’s surrender and imprisonment, the inevitable retribution began. The British Navy had a tradition of leniency towards certain kinds of mutiny but by the same token ruthlessly suppressed mutinies which struck at the authority of the captain. The … Continue reading
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The Breeze At Spithead. Part 9. The Grand Finale.
Now the dalliance of Parliament and the blinding stupidity of the Admiralty combined into what was a potentially deadly set of circumstances. Bridport had heard French fleet was out on May 3, but the winds were not favorable for the … Continue reading
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Mutiny on HMS Culloden
According to Brian Lavery in Nelson’s Navy, there were over a thousand instances of mutiny between 1793 and 1815. These involved the spectrum from one man to multiple men and instances where the mutineers got their demands as well as … Continue reading
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The Breeze at Spithead, Part 5.
Shortly after the men of HMS Queen Charlotte manned the shrouds with the cheer that set off the Spithead Mutiny, the leaders from that ship set out in a boat to visit all the ships in the Channel Fleet. At … Continue reading
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The Breeze At Spithead, Part 4.
The men of the Channel Fleet waited patiently throughout the month of March and into April for a response to the appeals for higher wages they had addressed to Lord Howe. By early April, though, it became apparent that no … Continue reading
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Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport
We’re slowly but surely working our way through the mutiny of the Channel Fleet at Spithead and the the North Sea Fleet at The Nore with the help of Mainwaring’s Floating Republic. We’ll take a time out from the action … Continue reading
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The Breeze at Spithead, Part 3. “…say nothing, do nothing, and hope that nothing would happen”
The Spithead Mutiny, as we discuss here, did not erupt from a single deed, rather it was the culmination of a long pattern of the Admiralty ignoring some very basic demands for more equitable terms of service on the part … Continue reading
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The Breeze at Spithead, Part 2: Valentine Joyce,
The differences between the mutinies occurring sequentially at Spithead and The Nore can best be explained by the leadership. The self styled “President of the Fleet” during the mutiny at The Nore was a failed midshipman, failed teacher, named Richard … Continue reading
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The Breeze at Spithead, Part 1.
We posted yesterday that we would start a series of posts on the mutinies of the Royal Navy at Spithead and The Nore. We will be using G. E. Mainwaring’s The Floating Republic: an account of the mutinies at Spithead … Continue reading
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King’s Captain
King’s Captain covers the career of Dewey Lambdin’s naval hero Alan Lewrie from Valentine’s Day 1797 through the collapse of the Nore Mutiny in June 1797. Following his adventure in Jester’s Fortune, Lewrie finds himself and Jester still under the … Continue reading
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