The Royal Navy has said it is "disappointed" after a relic from HMS Bounty was sold at auction, despite attempts to block the ...

HMS Bounty, also known as HM Armed Vessel Bounty, was built in Hull and purchased by the navy in 1787. It was sent to the South Pacific under the command of William Bligh, but members of his crew, led ...

Midshipman Roger Byam joins Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian aboard HMS Bounty for a voyage to Tahiti. Bligh proves to be a brutal tyrant and, after six pleasant months on Tahiti, Christian ...

His name has become a byword for cruelty; a tyrant who drove the crew of his ship, HMS Bounty ... He was particularly decent towards Fletcher Christian, an attractive but weak man, whom he ...

In 1789, a group of disillusioned crewmen on HMS Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian, took control of the ship and set their captain and his loyalists adrift on a small boat. The mutineers then ...

These relics of HMS Bounty are sheathing nails that were used to fix protective copper sheathing to hull. After Fletcher Christian and the mutineers arrived at Pitcairn they stripped the Bounty of ...