I have not heard of this before. Sea Your History - The Invergordon Mutiny of 1931 It was good that involved kept their heads and didn't allow this to turn violent, as it very well could have.
I have not heard of this before. Sea Your History - The Invergordon Mutiny of 1931 It was good that involved kept their heads and didn't allow this to turn violent, as it very well could have. Len Wincott left the navy and home for what he thought would be the ideal life in Russia.Unfortunately he suffered under the Soviet system but stuck it out and lived to tell the tale back home.I think he lived to an old age and may have recorded his ordeal in a publication
Nice one Jeff, what a great site. Particularly enjoying the sections on Pompey Dockyard. Sea Your History - Portsmouth Dockyard Cheers, Adam.
Len Wincott .....may have recorded his ordeal in a publication He did indeed: Amazon.co.uk: Invergordon Mutineer: Books: Len Wincott AbeBooks: Search Results - ISBN 0297767836
Jeff, As I'm currently involved in an Industrial dispute I really enjoyed reading those stories. I like the On The Knee Mutiny too, as it involves heavy rain and a strike. Very topical for me at the moment.
Britain at Sea - Inter-War Trouble - BBC Sounds Released On: 06 Jun 2014 Available for over a year Lord West explores the Royal Navy's three battles between the wars: with a new department in Whitehall, with communists in Russia, and with the Navy's oldest foe - the Treasury. The First World War left Britain reeling, economically devastated and with massive social dislocation and a generation scarred, both physically and psychologically, by the conflict. The country was on the back foot, and the Royal Navy was, too. The Navy's formidable new capability - its air arm - was taken away and handed to the newly-formed RAF. Constant raids by the Treasury were initially rebuffed, but eventually took their toll. And a perception grew up that the pre-war arms race had caused the war, and that the Navy had caused the arms race, and there was little outrage when the size of the navy was fixed. But alongside these battles in Whitehall, in international negotiations, and for the hearts and minds of the British public, the Navy also had a proper war to fight. For almost a year after the end of the First World War, the Navy - together with other British and allied troops - fought a war in Russia against the 'Red Army' of the nascent Soviet Union. Largely forgotten today because the exhausted troops were eventually withdrawn, the war nevertheless gave Estonia its first taste of independence.
