Invergordon mutiny
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The Invergordon Mutiny was a mutiny by around 1,000 sailors in the British Atlantic Fleet that took place on 15–16 September 1931. For two days the sailors on the ships of the Royal Navy at Invergordo
British Atlantic Fleet on exercise in the late 1920s
Cromarty Firth in Scotland
Crew on the deck of Rodney in 1940
Hood around the time of the mutiny
Ramsay MacDonald
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James Ramsay MacDonald was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, first briefly in 1924 and again from 1929 to 1935. The first two of his governments belonged to the Labour Party: a minority Labo
Invergordon mutiny
…pay reduced to the same level, amounting to a 25% cut. Many Labour Party supporters also shared the sense of betrayal felt in the labour movement at Ramsay MacDonald's split with the Labour Party and his formation of the new National Government with the Conservatives. Sailors of the Atlantic Fleet, arriving at…
MacDonald in 1923
Bloody Sunday
Macdonald (third from left) in 1906, with other leading figures in the party
Ramsay MacDonald by Solomon Joseph Solomon, 1911