When the HMS Bounty set sail in 1787, Captain William Bligh had only his instincts to safely complete a journey from England to the South Pacific island of Tahiti ... on a map well to the east ...

But Bligh anticipated a peaceful journey to Tahiti, which had been visited by Captain James Cook in 1769 and was viewed by British mariners as a breadfruit-laden paradise. By day, the crew ...

As a token of its esteem and trust, the British Admiralty had promoted the young Lieutenant Bligh to captain—and packed him off on another two-year mission, back to Tahiti for the infernal ...

Brixton's abundance of breadfruit on its market stalls is touched on too; the map tracks its transplantation from Tahiti to the Caribbean courtesy of the infamous Captain Bligh, its subsequent use ...

The crew of the HMS Bounty mutinied against Captain William Bligh and set him adrift in the middle of the Pacific in a 21-foot open boat. It was the start of one of history's great survival stories.

Captain Bligh ... and a pocket watch, Bligh steered it some 4,000 miles to Timor, then returned to England and reported the mutiny. 3. The mutineers sailed back to Tahiti where some settled.

In 1787, Bligh was appointed as Captain of HMS Bounty, with Christian selected as master's mate, for a voyage to transport breadfruit from Tahiti to the West Indies. Bligh allegedly bullied his ...

Then-Lieutenant William Bligh was the captain of the HMS Bounty when the ... “But on his second voyage, the time spent in Tahiti was shorter, and there weren’t any notes about the names ...

Some blamed his harsh discipline; others pointed to the crew’s prolonged stay in Tahiti and their desire ... Whatever you may think of Captain Bligh, his tale is a reminder of the thin line ...