| Royal Navy 1931 "Invergordon Mutiny" by Alan Ereira |
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THE INVERGORDON MUTINYA narrative history of the last great mutiny in the Royal Navy and how it forced Britain of the Gold Standard in 1931.byAlan Ereira |
1st. Published September 1981 by A navy cloth bound book with gilt lettering to spine - FINE condition. In a VERY GOOD PLUS condition unclipped dust wrapper. 160 mm. x 240 mm.
182 Pages
ISBN 0710009305 |
Jacket flap blurb
THE INVERGORDON MUTINY
In September 1931 the Royal Navy experienced its biggest modern mutiny.
The largest warships in the Atlantic Fleet were gathering in Cromarty Firth, off Invergordon, for their autumn exercises. Meanwhile Ramsay Mac Donald's newly formed National Government announced its emergency budget, introducing means tests, cutting unemployment benefit and reducing public sector pay. On arrival at Invergordon the sailors discovered the scale of the cuts they were supposed to bear. Their resulting 'strike', co-ordinated from ship to ship, swiftly achieved its objective. The Navy was badly shaken by the extraordinary efficiency of the action, and Britain's financial credit was so seriously damaged that within a few days the country was forced off the Gold Standard, Yet until now little of the story has been known; officially described as a case of 'unrest', it was hushed up and no Courts-Martial or Commission of Inquiry followed.This is the first detailed account of the Invergordon mutiny based on the personal testimony of those involved on the lower deck. Particular attention is given to the way the affair was organised, both centrally and in individual ships, to the structure of command and to the flash points when the use of force was considered and attempted. New documentary evidence also shows that the Admiralty considered an armed assault on the Fleet.
The fiftieth anniversary of the affair coincides with unemployment returning to its 1931 level, and massive public spending cuts are once again associated with falling output and growing hardship. Could the events at Invergordon repeat themselves today? The dramatic story is here put into its historical context: the background to the budget crisis of 1931 , the implications of the cuts imposed, the conditions in the Fleet at the time, and the potency and organisation of the Navy are all explored here, in a unique portrait of the start of the 1930s.
The author
Alan Ereira went to Kilburn Grammar School and Queens' College, Cambridge. He is now a producer at the BBC, and has been writing and producing history programmes for schools since 1965. He recently won the Japan Prize for the best educational radio programme, world-wide, for The Battle of the Somme', and his first book, The People's England, was published in 1981 by Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Jacket photograph: a rebellious crowd on the forecastle of the HMS Hood, by courtesy of the Illustrated London News
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