Show Mutiny at the Nore Was Wai Partly Caused by Cheese The mutiny at the Nore in 1797 was partly caused by cheese ac ac- according according ac- ac according cording to a London England au au- Early in the Eighteenth century there was a statement as to the value of particular cheese for the navy It was to the effect that one third of a pound of Cheshire cheese was equal to U one pound of Suffolk cheese What would appear to U be a harm harm- harmless harmless harmless less reference to U the individual taste of the sailors of or that time was one of the principal causes of or the mu mu- mutiny mutiny mutiny tiny for the sailors particularly those from irom Suffolk much resented that there should be any differentiation dl differentiation against them Preserved food was introduced to the navy in 1840 when the Admi Admi- Admiralty Admiralty Admiralty ralty installed a plant at the Deptford Deptford Dept- Dept Deptford ford yard ard Some years later the issue of tinned meat co co- coincided coincided co- co coincided with the murder of a child named Fanny Adams whose body was cut up From that day the navy called tinned meat Fanny Adams In the mutiny at the Nore the ringleader Richard Parker styled himself President of the Floating Republic He was hanged from tho the yardarm of his ship |