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Spithead and Nore mutinies
two major mutinies by sailors of the Royal Navy in 1797.
Alan West, Baron West of Spithead
Alan William John West, Baron West of Spithead, (born 21 April 1948) is a retired admiral of the Royal Navy and formerly, from June 2007 to May 2010, a Labour Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the British Home Office with responsibility for security and a security advisor to Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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