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Spithead naval mutiny
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Spithead naval mutiny, 1797. While this mutiny lasted a calendar month, 16 April to 14 May, its roots had a century's growth. The Channel fleet was immobilized, with men withholding further service until grievances over pay, provisions, and leave had been redressed. Not until 10 May could the seamen be satisfied, but Earl
Howe's prestige and conciliatoriness, buttressed by a pardon, was decisive in bringing what had in effect been a strike to an end.
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Mutiny in the Royal Navy at Spithead. (England)(April 15, 1797)
Magazine article from: History Today; 4/1/1997; 700+ words
; ...mutiny in Britain's Channel fleet based at Spithead, outside Portsmouth, triggered off a wave...which summarised the main complaints of the Spithead mutineers. The catalyst for the Spithead mutiny was the refusal of the Channel fleet...
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 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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Tug under Royal review; The tradition of sending Merseyside ship to the Royal Fleet Review at Spithead continues thanks to a small volunteer group, reports Peter Elson.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 6/21/2005; 700+ words
; ...vessels to the Royal Fleet Reviews at Spithead, in the Solent. Most famously, the...Fleet Review, undertaken by the Queen at Spithead, on Tuesday, June 28. Liverpool...Brocklebank, this will be his third visit to a Spithead Review. By coincidence, also attending...
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ADMIRAL Lord West of Spithead, the former chief o... [Derived headline]
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 2/8/2008; 305 words
; ADMIRAL Lord West of Spithead, the former chief of the naval staff who is now a Home Office minister, showed this week he might not be such a strict disciplinarian...
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Echoes of a historic mutiny
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/31/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...moving across the great anchorage of Spithead, off Portsmouth, closing up to the...perilous year in English history". Spithead had been seething with tension and rumour...telegraph: "A mutiny is brewing at Spithead". It was the first example in British...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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On This Day.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 12/26/2002; 418 words
; 1787: The Bounty was launched at Spithead: Thecollier ship Bethia, renamed HMS Bounty sailed from Spithead with Captain William Bligh and a crew...later tried in England and hanged at Spithead. Also on This Day: 1717: The first...
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 "Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)")
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Flash back: Review of the fleet; Maritime TALES.(News)
Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England); 1/27/2007; 659 words
; ...world had ever seen. This was the Spithead Review of 1897 as depicted in a remarkable...the British Empire and beyond. This Spithead Review was claimed to be the largest...pride of the Cunard Fleet at the Spithead Review in 1897
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Volume bound in the wood of the Mary rose
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 10/6/2007; 700+ words
; ...was lost in full view of the king at Spithead on July 20, 1545, and such was the...ships still in port to make their way to Spithead and face the French, but in so doing...Narrative of the Loss of the Mary Rose at Spithead July 20 1545 will call for bids of pounds200...
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Bounty replica docks in North East.(News)
Newspaper article from: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England); 8/29/2007; 700+ words
; ...commis- sioned His Majesty's Armed Vessel Bounty out of Spithead, England, on course for the Pacific Island of Otaheite...220 years later, the modern Bounty will also embark from Spithead for the same destination in time for the 220th anniversary...
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Echo memories - A first name that should still make people listen
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 9/5/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...mast had just been repaired at Portsmouth.She set sail from Spithead with Rear Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle on board and embarked on...the garrison surrendered.Taylor eventually arrived back at Spithead, in January 1750. What he did for the next six years is not...
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Twisted
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 10/22/1996; ; 376 words
; ...the time of his life. "There's no age limit to enjoying a Spithead," he says mockingly, reFerring to both his most popular...decade-old hit when he tries to score a new record deal. With Spithead sales going strong, Snider's found life after rock and roll...
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Spithead mutiny
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Spithead mutiny A mutiny by sailors of the British navy based at Spithead, on the southern coast of Britain. In April 1797 the fleet refused to put to sea, calling for better pay and conditions, including the provision of edible food, improved...
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Spithead
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Spithead eastern part of the channel between Hampshire, England, and the Isle of Wight. In 1797 a celebrated wartime mutiny occurred in the fleet stationed at Spithead: the crews sent the officers ashore, ran the ships by committee, and...
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Spithead naval mutiny
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Spithead naval mutiny, 1797. While this mutiny lasted a calendar month, 16 April to 14 May, its roots had a century's growth. The...
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Nore naval mutiny
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Nore naval mutiny, 1797. Unlike Spithead , the Nore, at the mouth of the Medway...causes were fundamentally the same as Spithead's and it lasted for a similar period...disseminated through the anchorage, since the Spithead royal pardon did not obtain there. The...
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mutiny
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...hanged. However, in the naval mutiny at Spithead in 1797, when all the ships of the Channel...Nore which immediately followed that at Spithead, a number of the ringleaders were hanged...of the seamen had already been met at Spithead and there was, in the eyes of the Admiralty...
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