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Bookmark or Share- HMS Bounty - WikipediaHMS Bounty, also known as HM Armed Vessel Bounty, was a British merchant ship that the Royal Navy purchased in 1787 for a botanical mission. The ship was sent to the South Pacific Ocean under the command of William Bligh to acquire breadfruit plants and transport them to the British West Indies.
- Mutiny on the Bounty - WikipediaThe mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean 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 eighteen loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch.
- Bounty (1960 ship) - WikipediaBounty was an enlarged reconstruction of the original 1787 Royal Navy sailing ship HMS Bounty, built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in 1960. She sank off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012.
- Bligh, Breadfruit and Betrayal: The True Story behind the Mutiny on the ...The subject of countless books and films, the mutiny that took place aboard HMS Bounty on 28 April 1789 is one of the most famous events of nautical history. The cast of characters are well known: chiefly William Bligh, the cruel ship’s captain who fell foul of a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, the sensitive master’s mate.
- The real story behind the infamous mutiny on the H.M.S. BountyApril 27, 2021. • 9 min read. Idyllic islands. An epic journey. A rebellious crew. When the H.M.S. Bounty set sail from England in November 1787, its captain and crew could never have...
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