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Chilean naval mutiny of 1931

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445: 36: 140: 386:, where the base personnel, students at the sailors' academy, the coastal artillery and workers of the navy shipyards took over the Southern fleet, bringing the number of ships in the hands of the insurrection to 26. The sailors put ashore officers and then took to sea to join the rest of the mutineers in Coquimbo. In the meantime, other military units started to join the movement, including the Arica and Maipo Army Regiments, stationed in the cities of 345:, notified all public employees, including the members of the armed forces, of a reduction of 30% in their salaries. This reduction was on top of a previous 10% cut that had been inflicted on the armed forces the year before and the loss of all extra bonuses already accrued and owed to them. The military was already suffering from chronic low salaries and these reductions were further aggravated by the loss of 378:
mutinied, taking prisoner all the officers of the ship, who were kept confined in their cabins. The insurrection immediately spread to the rest of the fleet in Coquimbo, and all 14 units were soon in the hands of the sailors. The movement was under the leadership of Petty Officer Ernesto Gonzalez,
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Since the effectiveness of the Air Force had been placed in question by its earlier failure, Air Commodore Vergara insisted on attacking the fleet. This raid took place on 6 September at 5:00 PM. The plan was to concentrate the bombing over the battleship
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transports, modified into light bombers. Their original mission had been to intercept the Southern Fleet to prevent it from joining the rest of the mutineers in Coquimbo. This was considered to be easy to do, since the Southern fleet did not have any
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At this point the demands of the mutineers were increased to include agrarian reform, industrial "solidarity" and the payment of external debt by the "millionaires". Vice President Trucco was extremely alarmed and sent Adm.
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The combined actions of Talcahuano and Coquimbo seemingly disheartened the mutineers, who decided to end the mutiny. They took the fleet to Valparaíso and surrendered unconditionally to the authorities. The sailors were
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After the break in negotiations, the government issued an ultimatum for unconditional surrender. The mutineers answered by declaring a "social revolution" and announcing links with the Worker's Federation and the
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to discharge her dead and wounded. After two days of battle, the army captured the naval base on 6 September. The number of dead sailors and soldiers was never revealed, but has been estimated to be significant.
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attacked the naval base of Talcahuano. These forces were composed of four regiments and an artillery battalion. The attack started at 15:30 when the land artillery started to bombard the Chilean destroyer
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Further purges in the navy followed. In the end, no sailors were executed, and the mutineers were all pardoned by their commanders one year later, along with the advent of the
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who cabled the government demanding that they rescind the salary reduction and also notifying them that the movement was not a political one.
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of the Chilean Air Force and the brother of the Chilean Minister of War, concentrated all his air power in the city of
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on 26 July 1931. The collapse of exports and prices for Chilean products, the lack of liquidity and the high level of
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on 20 August 1931, launched cuts to public spending. At the end of that month the Finance Minister,
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at the base. The ship was hit and severely damaged. Eventually she was forced to withdraw to
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As part of its attempts to deal with the Great Depression, the government of Vice President
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and the general recession of the economy. The discontent was specially strong in the
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My memories of the Fleet in 1931, by the then Lieutenant Carlos A. Aguirre Vio.
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On the night of 31 August-1 September 1931, while the fleet was in the port of
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In 1931 Chile was bankrupt. The situation had caused the downfall of President
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and received sentences ranging from short imprisonment to death sentences.
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La sublevación de '. escuadra y el períodoo revolucionario 1924–1932
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Life of Guillermo Steembecker, "Commodore" of the insurrection,
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The Chilean Air Force bombs the Chilean fleet at the port of
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to name Chile as the country most affected worldwide by the
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The Abortive Kronstadt: The Chilean Naval Mutiny of 1931
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On 3 September the mutiny spread to the naval base of
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enlisted men against the government of Vice President
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On 5 September army troops under the command of Gen.
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