The complement of HMS Bounty, the Royal Navy ship on which a historic mutiny occurred in the south Pacific on 28 April 1789, comprised 46 men on its departure...
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HMS 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...
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HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the...
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learning of the mutiny on HMS Bounty, the First Lord of the Admiralty, John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham, decided to despatch the ship to recover the Bounty, capture...
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Fletcher Christian (category HMS Bounty mutineers)
sailor who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789, during which he seized command of the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty from Lieutenant William Bligh. In...
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and was ordered to the Downs on 7 May. As soon as her complement of men was completed and her bounty paid she sailed to join Admiral Edward Thornbrough's...
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Peter Heywood (category HMS Bounty mutineers)
February 1831) was a British Royal Navy officer who was on board HMS Bounty during the mutiny of 28 April 1789. He was later captured in Tahiti, tried and condemned...
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story of the shipwreck of HMS Wager in 1741 and her crew's mutiny is largely forgotten and far less known about than the mutiny on the Bounty, which...
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James Morrison (mutineer) (category HMS Bounty mutineers)
mutineer who took part in the Mutiny on the Bounty. James Morrison was a native of Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland where his father was a merchant...
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1820. On 24 July 1812 HMS Acasta captured the privateer Curlew 44°15′N 62°30′W / 44.250°N 62.500°W / 44.250; -62.500. Curlew, of 240 tons, was pierced...
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