Black Sea mutiny

The Black Sea mutiny was a mutiny that took place aboard various ships of the French Navy — among others the battleships Jean Bart, France, and Provence — which had been dispatched to the Black Sea as part of the French-led Southern Russia intervention on the White Russian side.

After the armistice of November 11, 1918, the dreadnought battleship Jean Bart was part of a squadron sent across the Black Sea toward Odessa to combat the Russian Revolution.

The mutiny began on April 16, 1919, on board the destroyer Protet, as it lay anchored in the Danube River port of Galatz.

They were provoked by some combination of poor living conditions, the absence of demobilization following the armistice, and sympathy with the Russian revolutionaries.

Marty had fomented a plot to take control of the protest movement and to enter the port of Odessa by waving a red flag, the symbol of the Bolshevik revolutionaries.