A list of ship complements puts the 200 Atlantic Fleet dismissals in perspective. Approximate examples include 1,500 personnel in Hood, 400 in Adventure, and nearly 600 in Dorsetshire, with further large crews in the battleships and battlecruisers. The spoken running totals are rough, but the argument places the force above 10,000 once the remaining ships and destroyers are included. Only 200 sailors were judged to have done enough to be dismissed. Their small number supports the interpretation of selective punishment rather than an attempt to remove everyone involved in the protest.
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Counting ships' crews against 200 dismissals
Approximate complements for Hood, Adventure, Dorsetshire, and other ships show how small the dismissed group was compared with the assembled fleet.