Nore Mutiny 

Nore Mutiny – The mutiny of the sailors at the Nore (an anchoring point in the Thames Estuary) came on the heels of the mutiny at Spithead, near Portsmouth, in the spring of 1797. The mutiny began on 12 May and on 20 May the sailors, led by one Richard Parker, presented a list of demands to the Admiralty, most of which were rejected. Though the Spithead Mutiny had led to the implementation of many demands of the sailors, including pardons, by the Admiralty, the actions of the sailors at Nore infuriated the Admiralty to the point that negotiations broke down, and eventually the mutiny itself.  Parker and twenty-nine other sailors were convicted of treason and hung.  The Nore Mutiny was used as a backdrop by Herman Melville in his famous novella, Billy Budd.