UID:
almafu_9960119298802883
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 316 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-283-62028-6
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9786613932730
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1-78204-005-6
Content:
The naval mutinies of 1797 were unprecedented in scale and impressive in their level of organisation. Under threat of French invasion, crews in the Royal Navy's home fleet, after making clear demands, refused to sail until their demands were met. Subsequent mutinies affected the crews of more than one hundred ships in at least five home anchorages, replicated in the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Channel Fleet seamen pursued their grievances of pay and conditions by traditional petitions to their commanding officer, Admiral Richard Howe, but his flawed comprehension and communications were further exacerbated by the Admiralty. The Spithead mutiny became the seamen's last resort. Ironically Howe acknowledged the justice of their position and was instrumental in resolving the Spithead mutiny, but this did not prevent occurrences at the Nore and elsewhere. The most extensive approach since Conrad Gill's seminal and eponymous volume of 1913, 'The Naval Mutinies of 1797' focuses on new research, re-evaluating the causes, events, interpretations, discipline, relationships between officers and men, political inputs and affiliations and crucially, the rôle of the Irish and quota men. It poses new answers to old questions and suggests a new synthesis - self-determination - the seamen on their own terms. ANN VERONICA COATS is senior lecturer in the the School of Civil Engineering and Surveying at the University of Portsmouth and is Secretary of the Naval Dockyards Society. PHILIP MACDOUGALL is a writer and historian, author of seven books, with a doctorate on naval history from the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Introduction, analysis and interpretation / Ann Veronica Coats and Philip MacDougall -- Spithead Mutiny : introduction / Ann Veronica Coats -- The delegates : a radical tradition / Ann Veronica Coats -- What really happened on board HMS London? / David W. London -- The spirit of Kempenfeldt / David W. London -- Voices from the lower deck : petitions on the conduct of naval officers during the 1797 mutinies / Kathrin Orth -- Crew management and mutiny : the case of Minerve, 1796-1802 / Roger Morriss -- The 1797 mutinies in the Channel Fleet : a foreign-inspired revolutionary movement? / Ann Veronica Coats -- The Nore Mutiny : introduction / Philip MacDougall -- The east coast mutinies : May-June 1797 / Philip MacDougall -- Reporting the mutinies in the provincial press / Philip MacDougall -- A floating republic? Conspiracy theory and the Nore Mutiny of 1797 / Christopher Doorne -- Lower deck life in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars / Brian Lavery -- 'Launched into eternity' : admiralty retribution or the restoration of discipline? / Ann Veronica Coats -- Discipline, desertion and death : HMS Trent 1797-1803 / Nick Slope -- 'We went out with Admiral Duncan, we came back without him' : mutiny and the North Sea Squadron / Philip MacDougall -- The influence of 1797 upon the Nereide mutiny of 1809 / Jonathan Neale.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84383-669-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781782040057
