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The Lower deck of the Royal Navy 1900-1939

01 January 1991

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The Lower deck of the Royal Navy 1900-1939
libdoc March=1992

:Invergordon in perspective
Author: Carew, Anthony
Publisher: Manchester University Press 1981, pp.269
Notes, Bibliography, Index

Keywords: TUs, Navy, Defence

"In September 1931 men of the Atlantic Fleet refused to put to
sea.
Spontaneous and short-lived, the mutiny at Invergordon took the
Admiralty unawares. It need not have: for thirty years discontent
had
been simmering on the lower deck. But ratings were nor allowed
to
speak out, and Authority, more interested in hardware than human
personnel, clamped down on every avenue of complaint. Now cuts
in
already miserable pay seemed the last straw...This is the story
of
the long and not very successful struggle for better pay and
conditions up to the 1939 war." (Publishers text)

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