Mutiny on the Spanish Main
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Angus Konstam joined me on the podcast to tell the dramatic story of HMS Hermione. In 1797, the British frigate was the site of the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history.
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| 0:00.0 | Oi there, Tim HistoryHit. Welcome to the podcast. We've got Mutiny on this podcast, |
| 0:05.1 | Bloody Mutiny, one of the most remarkable infamous mutinys in the history of the Royal Navy on |
| 0:10.3 | the podcast today. Angus Constum's back on the podcast he's been on before. He's back to talk to us |
| 0:16.1 | about the Mutiny on the Spanish main HMS Hermione, a British frigate that was seized, officers |
| 0:23.6 | butchered and delivered into enemy hands. It's the story, the Royal Navy tried to suppress |
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| 1:23.2 | Angus, thank you very much for coming back on the podcast. |
| 1:31.2 | I'm pleasure. Now, I thought the most interesting and remarkable mutiny in Royal Navy history was |
| 1:36.0 | of course mutiny on the bounty in the late 1780s, but you've found a mutiny on board HMS Hermione |
| 1:41.1 | that I've never even heard of. But actually, it holds many records if it's all right to put it |
| 1:45.6 | like that. Well, it does. It didn't get covered by Hollywood like the mutiny on the bounty, but it |
| 1:51.0 | was much more horrific. It was the bloodiest mutiny in the Royal Navy's history. So that's certainly |
| 1:55.9 | something for the record books, but it also was one which triggered a number of pretty major |
| 2:01.0 | incidents, including a manhunt that lasted for a decade, but also an international incident with |
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