The Spithead mutiny ended with a blanket pardon, and no sailors were punished for their involvement. In contrast, the end of the Nore mutiny was followed by a stern judicial reckoning. This was not, however, a wave of ‘Terror’, as has sometimes been claimed. Through comparison with the precedents of naval punishment and a simultaneous session at the Old Bailey, this chapter argues that the courts martial following the Nore mutiny conformed to the established rationale, protocols, and practices of naval and civilian justice in late-eighteenth-century Britain. Compared to the size of the Nore mutiny, the courts martial did not stand out for their scale or severity, and the duration of the trials even gave defendants some advantages over their civilian counterparts at the Old Bailey. Crucially, these courts martial employed much the same approach as civil trials, where a relatively small number of deterrent examples were combined with clemency for the majority and a broad degree of discretion on the part of the judges.