Corruption in the Navy of Samuel Pepys

Did the Royal Navy have an equivalent to the US Navy's Fat Leonard scandal?

The Pepys-era Navy offers a much larger historical comparison, when corruption was often tolerated so long as the institution still produced ships and revenue.

The Navy administered in the age of Samuel Pepys offers a much larger historical comparison. At points, corruption was sufficiently embedded that the practical question became whether it still served the institution. Government grants and proceeds from captured ships generated money that supported Admiralty functions and other expenses. Ministers often declined to ask how the Navy achieved this degree of financial independence. This was a system of patronage and opaque finance rather than a single isolated scandal.