William Bligh lost his ship Bounty at the hands of one Fletcher Christian ... which I had researched for a book. There was also a personal incentive. I had briefly lived in Jamaica as a child ...

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 ...

The voyage of the Bounty, which ended in the celebrated mutiny, was undertaken for an almost forgotten purpose: to bring a plant from the South Seas to the West Indies ...

Peter Heywood was a participant in one of the most (in)famous naval events in history, the Mutiny on the Bounty. Together with William Bligh and Fletcher Christian, the three protagonists first ...

A son Richard, by his first wife Lucy Shuter, attended Westminster School as a King's Scholar (he was a lawyer and author and married a daughter of Vice Admiral William Bligh (of the ship Bounty) and ...