HMS Hermione topic
Also known as
- HMS Retribution,
- HMS Retaliation,
- Santa Cecilia
HMS Hermione was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1782 at Teast's of Bristol, and notorious for the mutiny which took place aboard her.
In the French Revolutionary Wars, she served in the West Indies, and in 1797 — the year of the Spithead and Nore mutinies — Captain Hugh Pigot was posted to command her. Pigot was a ruthless disciplinarian who meted out severe and arbitrary punishment. On 21 September 1797, Pigot ordered the topsails to be reefed, and,...
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