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

Introduction, Analysis and InterpretationSpithead Mutiny: Introduction - Ann Coats and Philip MacDougallThe Delegates: A Radical Tradition - Ann CoatsWhat really happened aboard HMS London? - David W. LondonThe Spirit of Kempenfeldt - David W. LondonVoices from the Lower Deck: Petitions on the Conduct of Naval Officers during the Great Mutinies - Kathrin OrthCrew Management and Mutiny: The Case of Minerve, 1796-1802 - Roger MorrissThe 1797 Mutinies in the Channel Fleet: A Foreign-Inspired Revolutionary Movement? - Ann CoatsThe Nore Mutiny: Introduction - Philip MacDougallThe East Coast Mutinies: May-June 1797 - Philip MacDougallReporting the Mutinies in the Provincial Press - Philip MacDougallA Floating Republic? Conspiracy Theory and the Nore Mutiny of 1797 - Christopher DoorneLower Deck Life in the Revolutionary Wars - Brian Lavery'Launched into eternity': Admiralty Retribution or the Restoration of Discipline? - Ann CoatsDiscipline, 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 MacDougallThe Influence of 1797 upon the Nereide Mutiny of 1809 - Jonathan Neale