On which ship did Fletcher Christian lead a mutiny in 1787
"of novels uses fictionalised versions of minor crew members as narrators of the stories. ""The Bounty,"" released in 1984, is less sympathetic to Christian than previous treatments were. Notes Bibliography Further reading General information Genealogical information The following genealogical information about Fletcher Christian and the other ""Bounty"" crew members comes from descendants of the ""Bounty"" crew, who may not be reliable and from historical archives. Related information Fletcher Christian Fletcher Christian (25 September 1764 – 20 September 1793) was master's mate on board HMS ""Bounty"" during Lieutenant William Bligh's voyage to Tahiti during 1787–1789 for breadfruit plants. In the mutiny"
"Channel and off the Channel Islands. She joined John Elliot’s squadron in Autumn 1782 and on 14 October 1782 she captured the French ""Amis"" off Île de Batz. ""Eurydice"" was paid off between 1782 and 1783 but recommissioned in April 1783. An 18-year-old Fletcher Christian, later to be the instigator of the mutiny on the ""Bounty"", signed on aboard HMS ""Eurydice"" on 25 April 1783 at Spithead. She was the first Royal Navy ship that Christian signed on to. ""Eurydice's"" next posting was to the East Indies, to which she sailed on 10 April 1783. On 24 May 1784, in"
"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"
"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"
"in the ship's launch, while 25, a mixture of mutineers and detainees, remained on board under Fletcher Christian. Bligh led his loyalists to safety in the open boat, and ultimately back to England. The mutineers divided—most settled on Tahiti, where they were captured by in 1791 and returned to England for trial, while Christian and eight others evaded discovery on Pitcairn Island. The Admiralty rated ""Bounty"" as a cutter, the smallest category of warship—this meant that she was commanded not by a captain but by a lieutenant, with no other commissioned officers aboard, and without the usual detachment of Royal"
"(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"
"taken the lesser post because of his eagerness to go along on the 'scientific expedition.' After the mutiny, Morrison was one of 16 mutineers who returned to Tahiti after the failed attempt to build a colony on Tubuai, while Fletcher Christian and 8 others sailed the ""Bounty"" on to Pitcairn Island. Along with the others who then lived as 'beachcombers' in Tahiti, he was captured here by Captain Edward Edwards of HMS ""Pandora"" on 29 March 1791, and brought back to England for court martial. While on Tahiti, he led an eight-month effort to build a schooner from local timber"
"In November 1790, Captain Edward Edwards—in command of HMS ""Pandora""—had sailed from England with orders to comb the Pacific for the mutineers of HMS ""Bounty"". In March of the following year, ""Pandora"" arrived at Tahiti and picked up 14 ""Bounty"" men who had stayed on that island. Although some of the 14 had not joined the mutiny, all were imprisoned and shackled in a cramped ""cage"" built on the deck, which the men grimly nicknamed ""Pandora's Box"". ""Pandora"" then left Tahiti in search of ""Bounty"" and the leader of the mutiny, Fletcher Christian. Captain Edwards' search for the remaining mutineers"
"the consent of the local tribes excepting the ""Typees"" from the Tai Pi Valley, took possession of Nuku Hiva of behalf of the British Crown. Nearly three weeks later, on the return journey to Valparaiso, ""Briton"" and ""Tagus"" made landfall at the then little known island of Pitcairn. Unbeknownst to anyone aboard the two visiting ships, the only surviving mutineer from the Fletcher Christian led 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty, John Adams, remained alive on Pitcairn. Although Mayhew Folger aboard the American trading ship ""Topaz"" had paid a brief visit to the island in 1808 and the Admiralty in London"
"appointed master of the HMAV ""Bounty"", with Fletcher Christian as master's mate. The ""Bounty""'s captain William Bligh on 10 January 1788 put his crew on three watches, giving one of them to Christian; and on 2 March 1788 promoted Christian to acting lieutenant. Some have speculated that this was the source of the ill-will that later developed between Fryer and Bligh. However, as a Master, Fryer would never have been promoted to lieutenant at sea. Indeed, he never did become a lieutenant. Fryer remained loyal, and accompanied Bligh in reaching Timor. Bligh's account of the mutiny vilified Fryer, but Fryer"
"sailed for the island of Tubuai, where they tried to settle. After three months of bloody conflict with the natives, however, they returned to Tahiti. Sixteen of the mutineers – including the four loyalists who had been unable to accompany Bligh – remained there, taking their chances that the Royal Navy would find them and bring them to justice. Immediately after setting the sixteen men ashore in Tahiti in September 1789, Fletcher Christian, eight other crewmen, six Tahitian men, and 11 women, one with a baby, set sail in the ""Bounty"" hoping to elude the Royal Navy. According to a"
"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"
"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"
"Christian to turn the ship back towards Tahiti. After Christian forces the crew to continue on, they eventually find Pitcairn Island, a place which Christian realises is not marked on British maps of the region. As the crew of the ""Bounty"" burn the ship to keep it from being found (as well as to motivate the crew to tough it out on the island), the judgment of Bligh's court martial is read: Bligh is found to have not been responsible for the loss of the ""Bounty"", and is commended for the voyage of the open boat. Meanwhile, Fletcher Christian and"
"courts, however supported the mutinous officers, granting the plaintiffs some £3000 in damages. Because ""Middlesex"" returned just a few months before ""Bounty"" sailed on her ill-fated voyage to the South Pacific, Charles and Fletcher Christian had an opportunity to spend time with each other. EIC voyage #3 (1789–1790): Captain Rodgers sailed from The Downs on 12 April 1789 (more than a year after his return and suspension). ""Middlesex"" was bound for China and she reached Whampoa on 25 August. Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 21 November, reached St Helena on 18 February 1790, and arrived at The"
"captured the American privateer frigates ""Scourge"" and ""Rhodes"" in February 1782 and then saw action at the Battle of the Saintes in April 1782. He went on to be commanding officer of the third-rate later in 1782 and commanding officer of the royal yacht in 1787. He became Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in April 1795 and was in command during the Spithead and Nore mutinies in 1797. The first round of negotiations, led by Buckner for the Navy, failed dismally with Buckner being threatened with a broadside attack from the third-rate which was being held by the mutineers. The mutiny ultimately"
"settle on the island of Tubuai, the ""Bounty"" mutineers returned to Tahiti where they parted company. Fletcher Christian and eight of his men, together with eighteen Polynesians, sailed from Tahiti in September 1789, and for a period of eighteen years nothing was heard of them. Then, in 1808, the American sailing vessel ""Topaz"" discovered a thriving community of mixed blood on Pitcairn Island under the rule of ""Alexander Smith"" (the assumed name of John Adams, the only survivor of the fifteen men who had landed there so long before). Pitcairn's Island (novel) Pitcairn's Island is the third installment in the"
"McCoy, one of the four surviving mutineers, fell off a cliff while intoxicated and was killed. Quintal was later killed by the remaining two mutineers, Adams and Ned Young, after he attacked them. Young became the new leader of Pitcairn. John Adams gave conflicting accounts of Christian's death to visitors on ships that subsequently visited Pitcairn. He was variously said to have died of natural causes, committed suicide, gone insane and been murdered. Christian was survived by Maimiti and his son, Thursday October Christian (born 1790). Besides Thursday October, Fletcher Christian also had a younger son named Charles Christian (born"
"was appointed Governor of New South Wales. He returned to London in 1810 having suffered a further rebellion by local army officers who opposed Bligh's attempts to reform local practices, as well as his rule by ""fiat""; Bligh was again court-martialed and acquitted. On his retirement he was promoted to rear admiral; he died in 1817. Fletcher Christian, who had taken the ""Bounty"" to Pitcairn Island and founded a colony there with a group of hard core mutineers and conscripted Tahitians, was killed in September 1793 during a feud. Christian's last recorded words, supposedly, were ""Oh, dear!"" Peter Heywood Peter"
"she remained in home waters and passed to Captain John Temple who was in command when ""Crescent"" was wrecked off the coast of Jutland on 6 December. More than 200 people died as a result, including Temple himself. HMS Crescent (1784) HMS ""Crescent"" was a 36-gun ""Flora""-Class frigate of the British Royal Navy. Launched in 1784, she spent the first years of her service on blockade duty in the English Channel where she single-handedly captured the French frigate, ""La Reunion"". In 1795, ""Crescent"" was part of a squadron commanded by George Elphinstone, that forced the surrender of a Batavian Navy"
"""Pandora"" to apprehend the mutineers. Fourteen were captured in Tahiti and imprisoned on board ""Pandora"", which then searched without success for Christian's party that had hidden on Pitcairn Island. After turning back towards England, ""Pandora"" ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef, with the loss of 31 crew and four prisoners from ""Bounty"". The 10 surviving detainees reached England in June 1792 and were court martialled; four were acquitted, three were pardoned and three were hanged. Christian's group remained undiscovered on Pitcairn until 1808, by which time only one mutineer, John Adams, remained alive. Almost all his fellow-mutineers, including Christian,"
"left England in 1787 on a mission to collect and transport breadfruit from the Pacific, and arrived in Tahiti late in 1788. Relations between Bligh and certain of his officers, notably Fletcher Christian, became strained, and worsened during the five months that ""Bounty"" remained in Tahiti. Shortly after the ship began its homeward voyage Christian and his discontented followers seized Bligh and took control of the vessel. Bligh and 18 loyalists were set adrift in an open boat; Heywood was among those who remained with ""Bounty"". Later, he and 15 others left the ship and settled in Tahiti, while ""Bounty"""
"the time of his return to England in August 1793, following his successful conveyance of breadfruit to the West Indies aboard ""Providence"", professional and public opinion had turned against him. He was snubbed at the Admiralty when he went to present his report, and was left on half pay for 19 months before receiving his next appointment. In late 1794 the jurist Edward Christian, brother of Fletcher, published his ""Appendix"" to the court martial proceedings, which was said by the press to ""palliate the behaviour of Christian and the Mutineers, and to criminate Captain Bligh"". Bligh's position was further undermined"
"HMS Crescent (1784) HMS ""Crescent"" was a 36-gun ""Flora""-Class frigate of the British Royal Navy. Launched in 1784, she spent the first years of her service on blockade duty in the English Channel where she single-handedly captured the French frigate, ""La Reunion"". In 1795, ""Crescent"" was part of a squadron commanded by George Elphinstone, that forced the surrender of a Batavian Navy squadron at the capitulation of Saldanha Bay. After serving in the West Indies, ""Crescent"" returned to home waters and was wrecked off the coast of Jutland on 6 December 1808. Britain's early preference for smaller warships was mainly"
"were found guilty, only three were executed - Millward, Burkitt and Ellison who were executed on 29 October 1792 on board the ""Brunswick"" man of war at Portsmouth. Peter Heywood and James Morrison received a Royal pardon, while William Muspratt was acquitted on a legal technicality. Descendants of the nine mutineers not discovered by ""Pandora"" still live on Pitcairn Island, the refuge Fletcher Christian founded in January 1790 and where they burnt and scuttled the ""Bounty"" a few weeks after arrival. Their hiding place was not discovered until 1808 when the New England sealer ""Topaz"" (Captain Mayhew Folger) happened on"
"and is still displayed in the Fiji Museum in Suva), he persuaded his editors and writers to let him dive off Pitcairn Island, where the rudder had been found. Despite the warnings of one islander""Man, you gwen be dead as a hatchet!""Marden dived for several days in the dangerous swells near the island, and found the remains of the ship: a rudder pin, nails, a ships boat oarlock, fittings and a ""Bounty"" anchor that he raised. He subsequently met with Marlon Brando to counsel him on his role as Fletcher Christian in the 1962 film ""Mutiny on the Bounty"". Later"
"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"
"Coleman, McIntosh and others—generally vanished from the public eye after the closing of the procedures. After leaving Tahiti on 22 September 1789, Christian sailed ""Bounty"" west in search of a safe haven. He then formed the idea of settling on Pitcairn Island, far to the east of Tahiti; the island had been reported in 1767, but its exact location was never verified. After months of searching, Christian rediscovered the island on 15 January 1790, east of its recorded position. This longitudinal error contributed to the mutineers' decision to settle on Pitcairn. On arrival the ship was unloaded and stripped of"
"missing. They wore orange survival suits complete with strobe lights, thus rescuers had some hope of finding them alive. Claudene Christian, one of the two missing crew members and who claimed to be related to HMS ""Bounty"" mutineer Fletcher Christian, was found by the Coast Guard. She was unresponsive, and later pronounced dead at a hospital. The other missing crew member was long-time captain Robin Walbridge. Raised in Montpelier, Vermont, Walbridge later moved to St. Petersburg, Florida. He was a field mechanic on houseboats who worked his way up to obtaining a 1600-ton license in 1995, when he began working"
"leader Fletcher Christian. On Saturday 12 September 2009, the ship was berthed at Custom House Quay in Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland. At about 04:10 BST thieves targeted the ship and stole a small sum of cash, several items of clothing with ""Bounty""s insignia, a survival suit, a book, a life ring and an American flag. The items were later recovered nearby. ""Bounty""s owners had offered her for sale since 2010. The ship was for sale as of 2012 for US$4.6 million. In winter of 2012, the ship was in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She took part in the Tall Ships gatherings"
"the crew mutinied on the initiative of Fletcher Christian. The mutineers seized the ship and set the captain and most of those members of the crew who remained loyal to him adrift in a ship's boat. A group of mutineers then went back to settle in Tahiti. Although various explorers had refused to get involved in tribal conflicts, the mutineers from ""Bounty"" offered their services as mercenaries and furnished arms to the family which became the Pōmare Dynasty. The chief Tū knew how to use their presence in the harbours favoured by sailors to his advantage. As a result of"
"the two were ""school friends""; Christian was six years the senior of the future Poet Laureate. His mother Ann died on the Isle of Man in 1819. Fletcher Christian began his naval career at a late age, joining the Royal Navy as a cabin boy when he was already seventeen years old (the average age for this position was between 12 to 15). He served for over a year on a third-rate frigate along with his future commander, William Bligh, who was posted as the ship's sixth lieutenant. Christian next became a Midshipman on the sixth-rate post ship HMS ""Eurydice"""
"by the noxious effluvia. When the hatches were taken off the stench was so powerful it was scarcely possible to stand over them. Complaints by Surgeons White and Balmain to First Fleet captain Arthur Phillip led to regular pumping of ""Alexander's"" bilge thereafter, with a corresponding improvement in convict health. Sinclair thwarted an attempted mutiny aboard the vessel in October 1787. A band of five convicts and a number of able seamen had armed themselves with iron bars, intending to overpower the guard and sail the vessel to the nearest landfall. Sinclair, aware of the plot through an informant, had"