Whose accounts of naval grievances survive?

Few accounts written by chiefs and ordinary sailors from this period are available alongside the officer memoirs. The officer perspectives selected for this discussion come from men with reputations for supporting their crews, so the selection itself affects the picture of naval grievances. The small number of chiefs' accounts discussed here are harsher toward some mutineers and were set aside partly for that reason. Their criticism centres on men bypassing the chiefs instead of making complaints through the established chain. Reading these perspectives together complicates an officers-versus-ratings interpretation and reveals senior NCOs as strong defenders of service procedure.