Captain William Bligh being cast adrift Bligh decided – no more islands. Instead, he headed for the nearest European settlement, the Dutch East Indies, thousands of miles away. He set the ration ...

A son Richard, by his first wife Lucy Shuter, attended Westminster School as a King's Scholar (he was a lawyer and author and married a daughter of Vice Admiral William Bligh (of the ship Bounty) and ...

The gun is thought to be one of the four recovered from the Bounty after it sank Fletcher Christian led disaffected crewmen to overthrow the captain William Bligh whose authoritarian command they ...

Royal Navy captain William Bligh uses brutal methods to keep his crew in line, to the horror of his second-in-command Fletcher Christian. When the strict discipline starts to have fatal ...