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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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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HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the...
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learning of the 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...
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and was ordered to the Downs on 7 May. As soon as her complement of men was completed and her bounty paid she sailed to join Admiral Edward Thornbrough's...
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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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Charles Churchill (mutineer) (category HMS Bounty mutineers)
Charles Churchill (1759–1790) was the master at arms on board HMAV Bounty during Lieutenant William Bligh's voyage to Tahiti to transplant breadfruit to...
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Peter Heywood (category HMS Bounty mutineers)
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 and condemned...
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story of the shipwreck of HMS Wager in 1741 and her crew's mutiny is largely forgotten and far less known about than the mutiny on the Bounty, which...
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James Morrison (mutineer) (category HMS Bounty mutineers)
mutineer who took part in the Mutiny on the Bounty. James Morrison was a native of Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland where his father was a merchant...
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HMS Columbia was the United States privateer brig Curlew, which the British Royal Navy captured in 1812 and took into service as HMS Columbia. The Navy...
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HMS Hermione was the lead ship of the Hermione class, a six-ship class of 32-gun fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 9 September...
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HMS Santa Margarita was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She had been built for service with the Spanish Navy, but was captured after five...
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John Nicholson Inglefield (category Royal Navy personnel of the American Revolutionary War)
Coast of Africa. In 1792, he served as one of the judges at the court-martial of the mutineers from HMS Bounty, who had been captured on Tahiti. In 1793...
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HMS Baralong was a cargo steamship that was built in England in 1901, served in the Royal Navy as a Q-ship in the First World War, was sold into Japanese...
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HMS Liverpool was a Royal Navy Endymion-class frigate, reclassified as a fourth rate. She was built by Wigram, Wells and Green and launched at Woolwich...
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The third HMS Black Joke was probably built in Baltimore in 1824, becoming the Brazilian slave ship Henriquetta. The Royal Navy captured her in September...
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member of the crew that had seized HMS Bounty from its captain Lieutenant William Bligh during the 1789 mutiny aboard the ship. With the coming of the Pax...
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command HMS Pandora, which was assigned to carry the Bounty mutineers back to England. Narcissus was wrecked in 1796. J. McKay, R. Coleman, "Anatomy of the...
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HMS Tonnant (lit. 'Thundering') was an 80-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She had previously been Tonnant of the French Navy and the lead ship...
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HMS Coreopsis was an Anchusa-class sloop and Q-ship of the Royal Navy, built at the yards of Barclay Curle on Clydeside and launched on 15 September 1917...
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HMS Cornelia was a Royal Navy 32-gun fifth-rate Narcissus-class frigate, launched in 1808 at South Shields. She participated in the Invasion of Ile de...
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Impressment (redirect from Impressment of American Seamen)
of Social History. 54 (1): 67–93. doi:10.1017/S0020859009000030. S2CID 145395508. For example, the frigate HMS Hermione, with a regular complement of...
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Nelson in Bequest to the Nation, and Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian in The Bounty). The film is drawn from the Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, but...
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HMS Rigorous was an R-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy during World War I. Launched on 30 September 1916, the vessel operated as part...
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RFA Wave Victor (redirect from SS Empire Bounty)
support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary built at Haverton Hill-on-Tees by Furness Shipbuilding Company. She was built in 1942 as Empire Bounty for the Ministry...
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HMS Cyclops was a paddle wheel steam frigate built for the Royal Navy and launched in 1839 and taken out of service in 1861 and sold for breaking in January...
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catches her and the pirates escape. The Captain is placed under the highest bounty ever seen among pirates, restoring his reputation. Darwin stays on an island...
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HMS Badger was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during the First World War and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the eighth...
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18-year-old Fletcher Christian, later to be the instigator of the mutiny on the Bounty, signed on aboard HMS Eurydice on 25 April 1783 at Spithead. She was the...
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