HMS Kilbride and postwar Baltic resistance

HMS Kilbride's mutiny began at Milford Haven on 13 January 1919, as sailors resisted further service connected with the Baltic intervention. Their refusal was non-violent: they would not work, put to sea, or man stations, but did not attack their officers. They objected to being sent themselves after completing their wartime service, rather than necessarily opposing British assistance in the Russian Civil War. Officers tried to contain the refusal by phrasing requests so that fewer sailors directly disobeyed an order. Eight men were court-martialed for non-violent mutiny, received sentences ranging from 90 days to two years of hard labor, and were dismissed. This was one of several scattered disputes whose scale remained far below the later Invergordon crisis.