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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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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The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher...
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Bounty was an enlarged reconstruction of the original 1787 Royal Navy sailing ship HMS Bounty, built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in 1960. She sank off...
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The Bounty is a 1984 British epic historical drama film directed by Roger Donaldson. It depicts the voyage and mutiny of HMS Bounty, with Robert Bolt's...
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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 the...
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It dramatizes the mutiny of HMS Bounty, and is adapted from the novels Mutiny on the Bounty and Men Against the Sea by Charles Nordhoff...
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Scuttling (section HMS Bounty (1790))
should any British ships enter the river. HMS Bounty, after her crew mutinied, was scuttled by the mutineers in Bounty Bay off Pitcairn Island on 23 January...
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Look up bounty or bounties in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bounty or bounties commonly refers to: Bounty (reward), an amount of money or other reward...
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Pacific Ocean, of which many inhabitants are descendants of mutineers of HMS Bounty. The island is of volcanic origin, with a rugged cliff coastline. Unlike...
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Pitcairn Islands (category Mutiny on the Bounty)
July 1773. In 1790, nine of the mutineers from the British naval vessel HMS Bounty, along with the native Tahitian men and women who were with them (six...
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Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, based on the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer...
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The Mutiny on the Bounty was a mutiny on HMS Bounty that occurred in 1789. Mutiny on the Bounty may also refer to: Mutiny on the Bounty (novel), a 1932...
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Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 American Technicolor epic historical drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring...
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William Bligh (category Mutiny on the Bounty)
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...
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Merrell Fankhauser (section HMS Bounty)
1960s and 1970s with bands including the Impacts, Merrell & the Exiles, HMS Bounty, Fankhauser-Cassidy Band, and Mu. In addition, 12 songs recorded by Merrell...
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on the respective islands. It is named for HMS Bounty, although the ship never saw Norfolk Island. Bounty Day is celebrated on Pitcairn Island on 23 January...
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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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Pitcairn Island with the Bounty Mutineers. She took part in Ned Young's plot to murder male Polynesians who had travelled on HMS Bounty and killed Tetahiti...
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The Bounty Bible is a Bible that is thought to have been used on HMS Bounty, the ship famed for the Mutiny on the Bounty. In January 1790, nine of the...
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from HMS Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian, abducted 18 native Tahitians and settled on Pitcairn Island, afterwards setting fire to the Bounty. Christian's...
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had established a reputation for large and successful replicas such as HMS Bounty in 1960 and Bluenose II in 1963. The ship was inspected and certified...
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common ancestors were the nine surviving mutineers from the mutiny on HMS Bounty which occurred in the south Pacific Ocean in 1789. Their descendants also...
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claimed that British sovereignty over the islands was unconstitutional: HMS Bounty mutineers, from whom almost all of the current island population is descended...
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Mayhew Folger (category Mutiny on the Bounty)
Topaz that rediscovered the Pitcairn Islands in 1808, whilst one of HMS Bounty's mutineers was still living. Mayhew was born on March 12, 1774, in Nantucket...
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John Adams (mutineer) (category HMS Bounty mutineers)
of HMS Bounty and their Tahitian companions settled on the island and set fire to the Bounty. Only the ballast stone remains of the wreck in Bounty Bay...
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Tahiti (section Mutineers of the Bounty)
narrating the story of the 1789 mutiny on HMS Bounty – e.g. Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) with actor Marlon Brando, The Bounty (1984) with Mel Gibson. A more recent...
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Pitcairn was settled again in 1790 by a group of British mutineers on HMS Bounty and Tahitians. Adamstown is named for the last surviving mutineer, John...
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Peter Heywood (category HMS Bounty mutineers)
1772 – 10 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...
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Island which was first inhabited in the 1790s by British mutineers from HMS Bounty and some Tahitians who joined them. The descendants of the mutineers had...
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