The Floating Republic

“A straightforward, factual account of the events which crippled two whole fleets and kept all England buzzing in the spring of 1797.” — Time The naval mutiny of 1797 is the most astonishing recorded in British history; astonishing by its management rather than by its results, for other mutinies had been successful. Though it shook the country from end to end, it was largely ordered with rigid discipline, a respect for officers and an unswerving loyalty to the King. Moreover, it was so rationall