Larcum Kendall
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Larcum Kendall was a watchmaker from Oxfordshire, who was active in London.
A blue plaque to Larcum Kendall in Charlbury, Oxfordshire
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 the Royal Navy merchant ship HMS Bounty fro
Larcum Kendall
…Bounty, recorded a daily inaccuracy of between 1.1 and three seconds and that it had varied irregularly. The chronometer attained fame because of the mutiny on the Bounty. The timekeeper was taken by the mutineers following the loss of the Bounty, for which Bligh subsequently apologised to Sir Harry Parker. It returned…
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