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Apr 16, 2014 · The oceangoing mutiny is almost unheard-of today, given modern comforts and communication, but place a group of people in a cramped environment, surrounded by the absolute promise of death should they become stranded, and mutiny is an ever-present threat on long sea voyages.
Apr 27, 2021 · Now famous for its mutiny, the Bounty has become a big-screen legend, spawning five feature films in the 20th century alone. But the ship’s voyage, and it's unforeseen consequences, were very...
- The Discovery // 1611. Reminders of Henry Hudson’s expeditions pepper northeastern North America: The Hudson River, the Hudson Bay, and the Hudson Strait are all named after him.
- The Batavia // 1629. On June 4, 1629, the Batavia, a merchant ship owned by the Dutch East India Company (VOC), wrecked near a small coral island (now called Beacon Island) off Australia’s western coast.
- The Meermin // 1766. In January 1766, the Meermin, another VOC ship, departed from western Madagascar with 147 enslaved Malagasy people on board. Their destination was Cape Town, South Africa.
- H.M.S. Bounty // 1789. The mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty is probably the most famous case of marine insubordination—thanks in part to the three major Hollywood films it inspired (two called Mutiny on the Bounty in 1935 and 1962, and 1984’s The Bounty).
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.
This article offers a narrative of the mutiny that reflects on how Washington and his fellow insurgents were able to overthrow shipboard authority when so many maritime slave revolts ended in failure.
- Anita Rupprecht
- 2013
The truth of the mutiny and its aftermath is shrouded in myths Fletcher Christian and some of the mutineers, accompanied by their Tahitian wives and six men, eventually settled on Pitcairn Island in the Pacific Ocean.
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Sep 19, 2024 · Incredible the mutiny of 1789 on the Bounty was only one of three set against Lieutenant William Bligh but was his a victim or a villain. When Lieutenant William Bligh set sail for the East Indian island of Timor on 28th April 1789, he commanded an 18-man crew in a perilously overloaded 23-foot launch.
