Despite their size, significance, and potential danger, the Spithead and Nore mutinies are little-known and little-remembered outside specialist circles. This chapter examines the reasons for this glaring omission, and charts the contested process that confined their memory almost to oblivion. Initially, the state’s control over the rituals of capital punishment and their effective monopoly on the spread of information allowed them to make considerable progress towards reassuring the British people that their navy had returned to normal. Their best-laid plans went awry due to the determination of Ann Parker, the wife of an executed mutineer leader, whose body-snatching escapades caused a public sensation. Having lost control of the narrative, it was a further naval victory three months later that gave the state a second chance. By resorting to several unusual measures, including conniving in the creation of an unprecedented ‘everyman’ sailor hero, the government and Admiralty were at last able to supplant the Spithead and Nore mutinies from the public memory. As the following years brought more celebrated naval victories, the 1797 fleet mutinies fell into obscurity, where they have remained.