Mutiny on the Bounty
Videos
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
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
Fletcher Christian
Videos
Fletcher Christian was an English 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.
Mutiny on the Bounty
…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 from its captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and set him and 18 loyalists adrift in the ship's…
Fletcher Christian's house
Postage stamp, UK issue for Pitcairn Islands (1940) showing King George VI and an artist's interpretation of Fletcher Christian
A view of Pitcairn's Island, South Seas, 1814, by J. Shillibeer
Fletcher Christian's son Thursday October Christian in 1814 at the age of 24, by J. Shillibeer