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 gun fetched more than expected when it went under the hammer in Dumfries A naval gun believed to be from HMS Bounty has sold ... to overthrow the captain William Bligh whose authoritarian ...

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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 ...

Captain Bligh was related to Admiral William Bligh, who was in charge of HMS Bounty when the crew staged a mutiny in 1789. Find all the latest planning applications via the Public Notice Portal If ...

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 ...

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 ...

About Mutiny on the Bounty, how to watch, cast and FAQs. Royal Navy captain William Bligh uses brutal methods to keep his crew in line, to the horror of his second-in-command Fletcher Christian.