Vice-Admiral William Bligh FRS (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was a British officer in the Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. He is best known for the mutiny on HMS Bounty, which occurred in 1789 when the ship was under his command. The reasons behind the mutiny continue to be debated.

Jul 16, 2019 · William Bligh (September 9, 1754–December 7, 1817) was a British mariner who had the bad luck, timing and temperament to be aboard two ships—HMS Bounty in 1789 and the HMS Director in 1791—on which the crew mutinied.

Oct 5, 2024 · Bligh and 18 of his men spent more than 40 days at sea in the ship’s cutter, travelling more than 3,000 nautical miles and eventually landing at Timor. That was a feat in itself. Bligh then found a boat, sailed to Jakarta, and finally …

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 from England in December 1787 and 44 at the time of the mutiny, including her commander Lieutenant William Bligh. [1] All but two of those aboard were Royal Navy personnel; the exceptions were two civilian botanists engaged to supervise ...

William Bligh's Journal of his passage from Batavia to England on the Dutch packet Vlydt.

Jan 26, 2023 · On 28 April 1789 Lt William Bligh was startled awake by the presence in his cabin of his first mate, Fletcher Christian, and several other HMS Bounty sailors threatening his life if he did not do as they ordered.

Apr 2, 2010 · William Bligh, Vice Admiral of the Blue, dropped dead in Bond Street on a visit to his surgeon in 1817. He was sixty-three years old and had been living quietly with his daughters on a comfortable estate he had purchased in Kent.

Jan 25, 2024 · Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian seized control of the ship from their captain, William Bligh, and set him and eighteen loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch. Bligh successfully navigated more than 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) in the launch to reach safety.

Bounty’s captain, Navy lieutenant William Bligh, was the only commissioned officer aboard the ship. His second in command, Fletcher Christian, had been appointed an acting lieutenant but held a ...

Jan 20, 2025 · William Bligh (born September 9, 1754, probably at Plymouth, county of Devon, England—died December 7, 1817, London) was an English navigator, explorer, and commander of the HMS Bounty at the time of the celebrated mutiny on that ship.