HMS Pandora (1779)
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HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in May 1779. The vessel is best known for its role in hunting down the Bounty mutineers in 1790, which remains
HMS Pandora foundering on 29 August 1791
Voyage of HMS Pandora in 1791
Mutiny on the Bounty
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The Mutiny on the Bounty occurred in the Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of HMS Bounty from the captain, Lieutenant Wil
Fletcher Christian and the mutineers set Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 others adrift, depicted in a 1790 aquatint by Robert Dodd
A 1960 reconstruction of HMS Bounty
Lieutenant William Bligh, captain of HMS Bounty
Matavai Bay in Tahiti, depicted in a 1776 painting by William Hodges