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Mutiny is the crime of conspiring to disobey orders that the mutineer is legally obliged to obey, e.g. by crewman of the ship. Virtually all countries punish this crime sustaining particularly coarse penalties; this has been all but invariably a death penalty.

A Royal Navy's Articles of War own changed slightly over a centuries it have been effective, however the 1757 version is representative – except that the dying penalty there are no protracted lives – & defines mutiny so:

A United States's Uniform Code of Military Justice defines mutiny thus:

Famous mutinies
The Batavia (1629) Corkbush Field mutiny (1647) by soldiers New Model Army who supported the Levellers. Mutiny on the Bounty (1789) Spithead and Nore mutinies (1797) HMS Hermione (1797) Indian Mutiny (1857) The Potemkin mutiny in Russia in 1905 The Curragh incident (July 1914): British officers stationed at the Curragh Camp near Dublin refused to suppress insurection by the Ulster Volunteers against the Home Rule Act 1914. French Army Mutinies inside 1917 (see Western Front (World War I)#1917 - Commonwealth takes the lead) Part of the crew of Russian cruiser Aurora joined the 1917 February Revolution and at 21:45 7 November 1917, a blank shot from either her fo'c'sle gun signalled a begin of the attack on the Winter Palace, which was to be a 1st episode of the communistic Russian Revolution. The Wilhelmshaven mutiny started October 29 1918 (see Weimar Republic) The "Kinmel Park Camp" mutiny [http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/beyond/factsheets/makhist/makhist5_prog3b.shtml] March 1919 The Connaught Rangers Mutiny (or Rebellion) within India, 1920. Irish soldiers in a British Army joined the Irish side in the Anglo-Irish War. A leader of a mutiny was executed, making him the previous member of the British Army to exist as executed for Mutiny. The Invergordon Mutiny, 1931 The Port Chicago mutiny, 1944 The SS Columbia Eagle incident, March 1970

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Mutiny!
David Essex's musical version of the famous 1789 Mutiny on the HMS Bounty. Successfully produced at London's Piccadilly Theatre for a 16 month run.

The Bounty's Acting Crew
Casts of characters from all the films and plays made about this famous real-life event. Play: "Mutiny!" (1985). Movies: "The Bounty" (1984), "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962), "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935), "In the Wake of the Bounty" (1933), and "Mutiny of the Bounty" (1916).