Spithead and Nore mutinies
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The Spithead and Nore mutinies were two major mutinies by sailors of the Royal Navy in 1797. They were the first in an increasing series of outbreaks of maritime radicalism in the Atlantic World. Desp
George III conducting a fleet review at Spithead on 22 June 1773
Illustration of a living Richard Parker pointing to his hanged corpse
Death mask of Parker taken shortly after he was hanged
The Delegates in Council, or beggars on horseback, a contemporaneous caricature
H.M.S. Defiant
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H.M.S. Defiant is a 1962 British naval war film directed by Lewis Gilbert with a screenplay by Nigel Kneale from Frank Tilsley's 1958 novel Mutiny, and starring Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Qu
Spithead and Nore mutinies
…these mutinies. In 1982, BBC Radio 4's Saturday Night Theatre broadcast a dramatised account of the book called The Floating Republic. The 1962 film H.M.S. Defiant (released in the U.S. as Damn the Defiant!) and the 1958 novel Mutiny by Frank Tilsley are fictional accounts of a ship's crew undertaking a mutiny…
Original UK film poster