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Vice-Admiral William Bligh FRS (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was a British officer in the Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. He is best known for the mutiny on HMS Bounty, which occurred in 1789 when the ship was under his command. The reasons behind the mutiny continue to be debated.
The 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.
William Bligh was an English navigator, explorer, and commander of the HMS Bounty at the time of the celebrated mutiny on that ship. The son of a customs officer, Bligh joined the Royal Navy in 1770. After six years as a midshipman, he was promoted to sailing master of the Resolution and served.
Apr 27, 2021 · On April 28, 1789, the men aboard the H.M.S. Bounty, a British naval vessel commanded by Captain William Bligh, mounted a legendary mutiny.
Jan 15, 2021 · Having collected supplies from Tahiti, and joined by 20 islanders, Christian and the mutineers attempted to found a new community on the island of Tubuai. But the tensions between different groups proved too much. 16 men returned to Tahiti and Christian and 8 others left in search of a safe haven.
May 23, 2018 · William Bligh (1754-1817) was an English naval captain and a colonial governor of New South Wales, Australia. Probably best known for his involvement in the mutiny on H. M. S. "Bounty," he had a career fraught with controversy.
William Bligh, (born Sept. 9, 1754, probably at Plymouth, county of Devon, Eng.—died Dec. 7, 1817, London), English admiral. He went to sea at the age of seven and joined the Royal Navy in 1770.
William Bligh was an officer in the Royal Navy and was the victim of a mutiny on his ship, the Bounty, in 1789. Bligh (1754–1817) had a reputation for having a volatile temper and often clashed with his fellow officers and crewmen.
Whether it was at the murder of English explorer William Cook on a windswept Hawaiian beach in 1779 or during the most famous mutiny in naval history, aboard HMS Bounty off the coast of Tahiti in 1789, William Bligh was there.
Feb 9, 2010 · Three weeks into a journey from Tahiti to the West Indies, the HMS Bounty is seized in a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, the master’s mate. Captain William Bligh and 18 of his loyal supporters...
