In the same year as the Spithead and Nore mutinies, the crew of the 32 gun frigate HMS Hermione mutinied, killing the captain, the three lieutenants, the lieutenant of marines, a midshipman, the purser, the surgeon, and the bosun. The mutineers then took the ship into a Spanish South American port. The Master, one midshipman, and two warrant officers were spared. They and the loyal members of the crew were held by the Spanish as POWs and exchanged in due course. The mutineers were eventually released and allowed to depart.

The Royal Navy sent in a cutting out expedition and recaptured the ship from under the Spanish guns. It then spent nine years hunting down the 33 mutineers. All were eventually captured and court martialled, and 24 were hung.

By all accounts Captain Piggot was a brutal, arbitrary and not all that competent officer who had obtained promotion through family influence, and the mutiny was far from unprovoked.