William Bligh may well be the most maligned man in history. His name has become a byword for cruelty; a tyrant who drove the crew of his ship, HMS Bounty, to such despair that they were forced ...
also known as HM Armed Vessel Bounty, was built in Hull and purchased by the navy in 1787. It was sent to the South Pacific ...
In December 1787, H. M. S. Bounty, a British armed transport commanded by a brutal martinet named William Bligh, set sail from Spithead, England, for Tahiti, from which it was to take breadfruit ...
The year is 1789 In the central Pacific Ocean the crew of Her Majestys Ship Bounty mutinied against their captain William Bligh and cast him adrift with 18 other men in an open boat 150 kilometres ...
Captain Bligh said that he never wanted to see any Manx man again, after the mutiny on The Bounty!Peter Heywood was a participant in one of the most (in)famous naval events in history, the Mutiny ...
Based on the novel, "Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian," this is the story of a 1789 mutiny aboard the H.M.S. Bounty in which an idyllic voyage to Tahiti turns a crew against it's Captain when they ...
Midshipman Roger Byam joins Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian aboard HMS Bounty for a voyage to Tahiti. Bligh proves to be a brutal tyrant and, after six pleasant months on Tahiti, Christian ...