A subsequent expedition found a small shelter that may have been built by the marooned explorers, but their bodies were never recovered. The fate of Hudson and his fellow castaways remains a mystery. The mutineers then steered Discovery toward England, but along the way all but eight of them succumbed to disease or were killed by natives. After commandeering the ship, the sailors forced Hudson, his son and seven other men into a small boat and abandoned them in the Hudson Bay. Starving and desperate to return home, the crew revolted.
Hudson wanted to continue searching for his passage, but he’d alienated his crew, many of whom believed the captain was hoarding food. While the explorers succeeded in locating the Hudson Bay-later named in Hudson’s honor-their ship became lodged in pack ice, forcing them to spend a treacherous winter ashore.īy time the ice had finally cleared in early 1611, the men’s morale was dangerously low. In 1610 Hudson led his ship Discovery to the frozen waters of modern-day Canada in an attempt to find a new western route to Asia. The British explorer Henry Hudson made four famous voyages to the United States and Canada, but his tireless efforts to locate the Northwest Passage ultimately provoked his crew to rebel against him. Hermione would go on to sail under the Spanish flag until 1799, when the British HMS Surprise recaptured it in a daring night raid. British authorities later apprehended a few dozen of the mutineers based on tips from informants, but over 120 evaded capture. Claiming they had merely marooned their officers in a dinghy, they agreed to turn Hermione over to the Spanish in exchange for asylum. Knowing they could never return to England, the mutineers sailed for La Guaira in modern-day Venezuela. In total, 10 officers were murdered during the uprising. Those whom the crew approved of were spared, but the rest were simply tossed overboard. Once in control of the ship, they dragged the rest of the officers to the main deck. The rebels-many drunk on rum-stabbed Pigot to death in his cabin and then proceeded to brutally slaughter several officers with cutlasses and tomahawks. Furious at the draconian punishments meted out by their captain, Hugh Pigot, roughly 30 men split into groups and launched a coordinated attack on their superiors. On the night of September 21, 1797, the Royal Navy vessel Hermione was trawling the Caribbean when the crew initiated the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history. The Potemkin mutiny was later immortalized in the 1925 silent film “Battleship Potemkin,” and was a significant influence on the 1917 revolution that led to the Soviet Union’s creation. Most of the crewmen remained in exile there, but some-including Matyushenko-later returned to Russia only to be arrested and executed. Matyushenko and his triumphant rebels would go on to sail for a total of 11 days before finally surrendering the battleship in Romania. Russia’s Black Sea fleet was soon mobilized to crush the mutineers, but their crews were sympathetic to the plight of the Potemkin sailors and refused to fire on them. Under the leadership of a revolutionary mariner named Afanasy Matyushenko, the crew killed nearly half the ship’s officers in a bloody shootout before commandeering Potemkin and the torpedo boat Ismail. Told to eat the tainted broth or face extreme punishment, the sailors rebelled.
The revolt occurred during the Russo-Japanese War when the 700 crewmen of the battleship Potemkin were given rations of borscht made from maggot-ridden meat. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.Although it was initially sparked by a mundane argument over food, the Potemkin mutiny became one of the pivotal events in the 1905 Russian Revolution.
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