8 The Nore Mutiny: Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Tables ix
5. Preface xi
6. About the Contributors xiv
7. Acknowledgements xvii
8. Abbreviations xix
9. Introduction, Analysis and Interpretation 1
10. 1. Spithead Mutiny: Introduction 17
11. 2 The Delegates: A Radical Tradition 39
12. 3 What Really Happened On Board HMS London? 61
13. 4 The Spirit of Kempenfeldt 79
14. 5 Voices from the Lower Deck: Petitions on the Conduct of Naval Officers during the 1797 Mutinies 98
15. 6 Crew Management and Mutiny: The Case of Minerve, 1796–1802 107
16. 7 The 1797 Mutinies in the Channel Fleet: A Foreign-Inspired Revolutionary Movement? 120
17. 8 The Nore Mutiny: Introduction 142
18. 9 The East Coast Mutinies: May–June 1797 147
19. 10 Reporting the Mutinies in the Provincial Press 161
20. 11 A Floating Republic? Conspiracy Theory and the Nore Mutiny of 1797 179
21. 12 Lower-Deck Life in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 194
22. 13 ‘Launched into Eternity’: Admiralty Retribution or the Restoration of Discipline? 209
23. 14 Discipline, Desertion and Death: HMS Trent, 1796–1803 226
24. 15 ‘We went out with Admiral Duncan, we came back without him’: Mutiny and the North Sea Squadron 243
25. 16 The Influence of 1797 upon the Nereide Mutiny of 1809 264
26. Select Bibliography 280
27. Index 297