"served simultaneously in his naval career. In the early 1780s, while in the merchant service, Bligh became acquainted with a young man named Fletcher Christian (1764–1793), who was eager to learn navigation from him. Bligh took Christian under his wing, and the two became friends. The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMAV Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Led by Master's Mate / Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, disaffected crewmen seized control of the ship, and set Bligh and 18 loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch. The mutineers variously settled on Tahiti or on"
"Mutiny on the Bounty The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel occurred in the south Pacific on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship from their captain Lieutenant William Bligh and set him and 18 loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch. The mutineers variously settled on Tahiti or on Pitcairn Island. Bligh meanwhile completed a voyage of more than in the launch to reach safety, and began the process of bringing the mutineers to justice. ""Bounty"" had left England in 1787 on a mission to collect and transport breadfruit plants"
"added a level of homoeroticism to the Bligh–Christian relationship. In 1998, in advance of a BBC documentary film aimed at Bligh's rehabilitation, the respective descendants of the captain and Christian feuded over their contrary versions of the truth. Dea Birkett, the programme's presenter, suggested that ""Christian versus Bligh has come to represent rebellion versus authoritarianism, a life constrained versus a life of freedom, sexual repression versus sexual licence."" Footnotes References Online Newspapers Bibliography Mutiny on the Bounty The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel occurred in the south Pacific on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by Acting Lieutenant Fletcher"
"boat during the Mutiny on the Bounty (1789). The Mutiny on the Bounty took place about 30 nautical miles (56 km) from Tofua in the Tonga islands. Lt William Bligh navigated the overcrowded 23 foot (7 m) open launch on an epic 41-day voyage first to Tofua and then to the West Timor city of Kupang equipped only with a sextant and a pocket watch— no charts or compass. He recorded the distance as 3,618 nautical miles (6710 km). He passed through the difficult Torres Strait along the way and landed on 14 June. The only casualty of his voyage"
"Bligh Water In 1789 the English Royal Navy Cutter the Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh was overtaken by 18 crew led by Master's Mate Fletcher Christian in what has been named the ""Mutiny on the Bounty."" The area known as the Bligh Water is the body of water (approximately 9500 km² in extent) in the western Fiji islands through which Bligh sailed his 7 m (23 ft) launch during his 3,618 mile journey from Tofua to the Dutch port of Timor. At the time some of the local Fijian tribes were considered hostile and many were cannibalistic so Bligh"
"Complement of HMS Bounty The complement of , the Royal Navy ship on which a historic mutiny occurred in the south Pacific on 28 April 1789, comprised 46 men on its departure from England in December 1787 and 44 at the time of the mutiny, including her commander Lieutenant William Bligh. All but two of those aboard were Royal Navy personnel; the exceptions were two civilian botanists engaged to supervise the breadfruit plants ""Bounty"" was tasked to take from Tahiti to the West Indies. Of the 44 aboard at the time of the mutiny, 19 (including Bligh) were set adrift"
"William Bligh Vice-Admiral William Bligh (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was an officer of the Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. The Mutiny on the Bounty occurred during his command of in 1789; after being set adrift in ""Bounty""s launch by the mutineers, Bligh and his loyal men reached Timor, a journey of . Seventeen years after the ""Bounty"" mutiny, on 13 August 1806, he was appointed Governor of New South Wales in Australia, with orders to clean up the corrupt rum trade of the New South Wales Corps. His actions directed against the trade resulted in the"
"John Fryer (Royal Navy officer) John Fryer (15 August 1753 – 26 May 1817) was the sailing master on HMAV ""Bounty"", a British vessel made famous by the Mutiny on the ""Bounty"". He had the interesting position of being a strong critic of both Lieutenant William Bligh and mutiny leader Fletcher Christian, even at one time accusing Bligh of favouring Christian. Despite his anger at Bligh, he did not support the mutiny. Fryer was born at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. After his naval service, he returned to Wells, and his grave in the churchyard is now clearly identified. In 1787, Fryer was"
"(Golden Cockerel Press). John Fryer (Royal Navy officer) John Fryer (15 August 1753 – 26 May 1817) was the sailing master on HMAV ""Bounty"", a British vessel made famous by the Mutiny on the ""Bounty"". He had the interesting position of being a strong critic of both Lieutenant William Bligh and mutiny leader Fletcher Christian, even at one time accusing Bligh of favouring Christian. Despite his anger at Bligh, he did not support the mutiny. Fryer was born at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. After his naval service, he returned to Wells, and his grave in the churchyard is now clearly identified. In"
"captains whose crews mutinied over ""issues of pay and involuntary service for common seamen"" during the Nore mutiny. The mutiny was not triggered by any specific actions by Bligh; the mutinies ""were widespread, [and] involved a fair number of English ships"". Whilst ""Director""'s role was relatively minor in this mutiny, she was the last to raise the white flag at its cessation. It was at this time that he learned ""that his common nickname among men in the fleet was 'that Bounty bastard'."" As captain of ""Director"" at the Battle of Camperdown on 11 October, Bligh engaged three Dutch vessels:"
"Wager Mutiny The ""Wager"" Mutiny was the mutiny of the crew of after she was wrecked on a desolate island off the south coast of Chile in 1741. The ship was part of a squadron commanded by George Anson and bound to attack Spanish interests in the Pacific. ""Wager"" lost contact with the squadron whilst rounding Cape Horn, ran aground and wrecked on the west coast of Chile in May 1741. The main body of the crew mutinied against the captain, David Cheap, abandoned him and his loyal crew members, and returned in a modified open boat to England via"
". ""Latona"" was at Spithead when mutinies broke out there aboard the ships anchored in the roads, and Bligh's was one of the ships affected. He was sent ashore by his crew on 12 May, but was able to return when the mutiny had ended. His distant relation, William Bligh, who had already suffered a mutiny on his ship when he commanded , was also involved in the widespread unrest, the crew of his ship mutinied at the Nore shortly afterwards. ""Latona"" then went out to Newfoundland as Waldegrave's flagship after his appointment as Commodore Governor there. Waldegrave shifted his"
"the ship, CAPT. Blah, was a domineering man with a uniform resembling the historical figure, William Bligh. Mutiny, on channel 4 in the UK, charts a recreation of Bligh's journey to Timor. It aired in 2017. Bligh was mentioned in the film ""Clear History"" by Larry David's character while rowing a boat off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. Bligh was mentioned in the television show ""Survivor"" during the reunion show of """" by Jeff Probst describing the next season """". Bligh has been portrayed in film by the following actors: William Bligh Vice-Admiral William Bligh (9 September 1754 – 7"
"divers each year visit to enjoy and photograph. Bligh Water In 1789 the English Royal Navy Cutter the Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh was overtaken by 18 crew led by Master's Mate Fletcher Christian in what has been named the ""Mutiny on the Bounty."" The area known as the Bligh Water is the body of water (approximately 9500 km² in extent) in the western Fiji islands through which Bligh sailed his 7 m (23 ft) launch during his 3,618 mile journey from Tofua to the Dutch port of Timor. At the time some of the local Fijian tribes were"
"unfortunate in his timing: The story of the mutiny became public knowledge when the Romantic poets first commanded the literary scene. Bligh's chief apologist was Sir Joseph Banks, while Christian was championed by Wordsworth and Coleridge. Among historians' attempts to portray Bligh more sympathetically are those of Richard Hough (1972) and Caroline Alexander (2003). Hough depicts """"an unsurpassed foul-weather commander ... I would go through hell and high water with him, but not for one day in the same ship on a calm sea"""". Alexander presents Bligh as over-anxious, solicitous of his crew's well-being, and utterly devoted to his task,"
"other than Bligh (who was then only a commissioned lieutenant), a very small crew, and no Marines to provide protection from hostile natives during stops or to enforce security on board ship. To allow longer uninterrupted sleep, Bligh divided his crew into three watches instead of two, placing his protégé Fletcher Christian—rated as a Master's Mate—in charge of one of the watches. The mutiny, which took place on 28 April 1789 during the return voyage, was led by Christian and supported by eighteen of the crew. They had seized firearms during Christian's night watch and surprised and bound Bligh in"
"them to Tahiti (despite his rational protestations that it was the last port of call for the ""Bounty"" and inevitably the first place the Admiralty would search once word of the mutiny was received or the ship was reported overdue). The mutiny is made more mysterious by the friendship of Christian and Bligh, which dates back to Bligh's days in the merchant service. Christian was well acquainted with the Bligh family. As Bligh was being set adrift he appealed to this friendship, saying ""you have dandled my children upon your knee"". According to Bligh, Christian ""appeared disturbed"" and replied, ""That,—Captain"
"in the pestilential Dutch East Indies port of Batavia, the present-day Indonesian capital of Jakarta, as they waited for transport to Britain. The reasons behind the mutiny are still a subject of debate. Some sources report that Bligh was a cruel tyrant whose abuse of the crew led them to feel that they had no choice but to take over the ship. Other sources argue that Bligh was no worse (and, in many cases, objectively gentler) than the average captains and naval officers of the era, and that the crew—inexperienced and unused to the rigours of the sea—were corrupted by"
"when the loyalist gunner Peckover confirmed that much of what was alleged in the ""Appendix"" was true. Bligh commanded HMS ""Director"" at the Battle of Camperdown in October 1797 and HMS ""Glatton"" in the Battle of Copenhagen in April 1801. In 1805 while commanding HMS ""Warrior"", he was court-martialled for using bad language to his officers, and reprimanded. In 1806, he was appointed Governor of New South Wales in Australia; after two years a group of army officers arrested and deposed him in the Rum Rebellion. After his return to England, Bligh was promoted to rear-admiral in 1811 and vice-admiral"
"In 1796, Jones took command of the 74-gun HMS ""Defiance"". ""Defiance"" had already seen a mutiny in 1795, which had been ended by Captain William Bligh. Bligh had taken 200 troops on board his ""Calcutta"" (formerly the East Indiaman ""Warley""), and bringing them alongside ""Defiance"" had been enough to end the mutiny without a boarding. The crew mutinied again while under Jones's command, as part of the Channel mutinies in 1797. In 1798, during the Irish Rebellion, ""Defiance"" was in Portsmouth. A plot was discovered amongst Catholic crewmen, who had taken an oath to seize control of the ship and"
"of informers and posted rewards that eventually led to the capture of 33 of the mutineers, some of whom were tried aboard , and at least one aboard . Of these, 24 were hanged and gibbetted, one was transported, and eight were acquitted or pardoned. To Parker's fury, Admiral Richard Rodney Bligh had issued pardons to several crew members. These included Pigot's elderly servant and his twelve-year-old son, who Bligh concluded could not reasonably have been expected to resist armed mutineers. Acting against regulations Parker forced Bligh to resign his command and return to Britain in the summer of 1799."
"The Mutineers of the Bounty Mutineers of the Bounty () is a short story by Jules Verne. The story is based on British documents about the Mutiny on the ""Bounty"" and was published in 1879 together with the novel ""The Begum's Fortune"" (""Les cinq cents millions de la Bégum""), as a part of the series ""Les Voyages Extraordinaires"" (""The Extraordinary Voyages""). Unlike many authors covering the topic, Verne concentrates on the deposed captain of the ""Bounty"", William Bligh. After mutineers forced Bligh into the ""Bounty""'s 23-foot launch on 28 April 1789, he led loyal crew members on a 6,710 kilometer"
"from Tahiti to the West Indies. A five-month layover in Tahiti, during which many of the men lived ashore and formed relationships with native Polynesians, proved harmful to discipline. Relations between Bligh and his crew deteriorated after he began handing out increasingly harsh punishments, criticism and abuse, Christian being a particular target. After three weeks back at sea, Christian and others forced Bligh from the ship. Twenty-five men remained on board afterwards, including loyalists held against their will and others for whom there was no room in the launch. After Bligh reached England in April 1790, the Admiralty despatched HMS"
"was then forced below at bayonet-point; according to Fryer, Christian told him: ""I have been in hell for weeks past. Captain Bligh has brought this on himself."" Christian originally thought to cast Bligh adrift in ""Bounty""'s small jolly boat, together with his clerk John Samuel and the loyalist midshipmen Hayward and Hallett. This boat proved unseaworthy, so Christian ordered the launching of a larger ship's boat, with a capacity of around ten. However, Christian and his allies had overestimated the extent of the mutiny—at least half on board were determined to leave with Bligh. Thus the ship's largest boat, a"
"Mutiny on the Bounty (novel) Mutiny on the Bounty is the title of the 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, based on the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of the ""Bounty"" in 1789. It has been made into several films and a musical. It was the first of what became ""The Bounty Trilogy"", which continues with ""Men Against the Sea"", and concludes with ""Pitcairn's Island"". The novel tells the story through a fictional first-person narrator by the name of Roger Byam, based on a crew member Peter Heywood. Byam, although not one of the mutineers,"
"Tahitian woman. Others of the ""Bounty""s warrant officers and seamen were also said to have formed ""connections"" with native women. After five months in Tahiti, the ""Bounty"" set sail with her breadfruit cargo on 4 April 1789. Some west of Tahiti, near Tonga, mutiny broke out on 28 April 1789. Despite strong words and threats heard on both sides, the ship was taken bloodlessly and apparently without struggle by any of the loyalists except Bligh himself. Of the 42 men on board aside from Bligh and Christian, 22 joined Christian in mutiny, two were passive, and 18 remained loyal to"
"of the men drinking there into naval service. One of the men inquires as to what ship they will sail on, and the press gang leader informs him that it is . Upon inquiring as to who the captain is, another of the men is told the captain is William Bligh (Charles Laughton) and attempts to escape, as Bligh is a brutal tyrant who routinely administers harsh punishment to officers and crew alike who lack discipline, cause any infraction on board the ship, or in any manner defy his authority. The ""Bounty"" leaves England several days later on a two-year"
"They were of immense scientific value to British botanists. Cook's second expedition included William Hodges, who produced notable landscape paintings of Tahiti, Easter Island, and other locations. Several officers who served under Cook went on to distinctive accomplishments. William Bligh, Cook's sailing master, was given command of in 1787 to sail to Tahiti and return with breadfruit. Bligh is most known for the mutiny of his crew which resulted in his being set adrift in 1789. He later became governor of New South Wales, where he was the subject of another mutiny—the Rum Rebellion. George Vancouver, one of Cook's midshipmen,"
"the prisoners, including Heywood, were allowed on deck only twice. On 25 December 1791 they were taken aboard a Dutch ship, ""Vreedenberg"", for passage to Europe via Cape Town. Still in the charge of Captain Edwards, the prisoners were kept in irons for most of the way. At the Cape they were eventually transferred to a British warship, , which set sail for England on 5 April 1792. On 19 June the ship arrived in Portsmouth where the prisoners were moved to the guardship . Bligh had landed in England on 14 March 1790 to public acclaim, and was quickly"
"sailed on, ending its voyage at Pitcairn Island. Bligh, after an epic open-boat journey, eventually reached England, where he implicated Heywood as one of the mutiny's prime instigators. In 1791 Heywood and his companions were met in Tahiti by the search vessel and held in irons for transportation to England. Heywood and one other sailor welcomed the ""Pandora"" in canoes, relieved to be rescued. However, they were arrested; the captain, Edward Edwards, had them and 12 others fettered and handcuffed in an 11 ft. box built for the purpose on deck. During their subsequent journey, ""Pandora"" was wrecked on the"
"Bligh was under arrest. The court martial exonerated Kent, saying that he had tried to carry out his duty for ""the good of His Majesty's service"" under ""extreme and extraordinary difficulties"". In 1808 Lieutenant John Porteous, formerly captain of the royal yacht, was appointed to the rank of Commander and sent out to New South Wales to assume command of ""Porpoise"". He took command in January 1809. On 29 February 1809 Bligh boarded ""Porpoise"" after being held under house arrest for over a year following a revolt by the New South Wales Corps, known as the Rum Rebellion. For a"
"was reduced to a sinking condition, Bligh struck his colours. The French took possession of ""Alexander"", but owing to the damage both they and their prize had sustained, were compelled to abandon their cruise and return to port, thus allowing several approaching British convoys to reach port unhindered. Bligh was taken as a prisoner of war, but unknown to him he had been promoted to the rank of rear-admiral of the blue on 23 October 1794. He was eventually exchanged and returned to England in May 1795, where he faced the customary court-martial for the loss of his ship. He"
"in the open boat. At Tahiti they were also assisted by John Brown, who had been left on the island by an English merchant ship, ""The Mercury"". Unknown to Edwards, twelve of the mutineers, together with four crew who had stayed loyal to Bligh, had by then already elected to return to Tahiti, after a failed attempt to establish a colony (Fort St George) under Fletcher Christian's leadership on Tubuai, one of the Austral Islands. The disaffected men were living in Tahiti as 'beachcombers', many of them having fathered children with local women. Fletcher Christian's group of mutineers and their"