The Naval Mutinies of 1797 (eBook, PDF)

Unity and Perseverance
Redaktion: Coats, Ann; Macdougall, Philip

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A reassessment of the naval mutinies of 1797, arguing that the mutinies were more industrial dispute than expression of French revolution inspired political radicalism.

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'slast 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 sinceConrad 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 doctorateon naval history from the University of Kent at Canterbury.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782040057
• Artikelnr.: 63918746

Autorenporträt

Ann Veronica Coats, Philip MacDougall

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Analysis and Interpretation Spithead Mutiny: Introduction
Ann Coats and Philip MacDougall The Delegates: A Radical Tradition
Ann Coats What really happened aboard 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 Great 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 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 Wars
Brian Lavery 'Launched into eternity': Admiralty Retribution or the Restoration of Discipline?
Ann Coats Discipline, Desertion and Death: HMS Trent 1796
1803
Nick Slope, Commissioning Editor '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