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The descendants of the Bounty mutineers include the modern-day Pitcairn Islanders as well as a little less than half of the population of Norfolk Island. Their common ancestors were the nine surviving mutineers from the mutiny on HMS Bounty which occurred in the south Pacific Ocean in 1789. Their descendants also live in New Zealand, Australia ...
Fletcher Christian (25 September 1764 – 20 September 1793) 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. In 1787, Christian was appointed master's mate on Bounty, tasked with transporting breadfruit plants from Tahiti to the ...
Works about HMS Bounty (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Mutiny on the Bounty" ... Descendants of the Bounty mutineers; E.
Innocent on the Bounty: The Court-Martial and Pardon of Midshipman Peter Heywood, in Letters. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-7266-6. Maxton, Donald A. (2008). The Mutiny on the Bounty: A guide to non-fiction, fiction, poetry, films, articles and music. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3064-2. Edwards, Edward and Hamilton, George (1915). Voyage of HMS ...
The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian , seized control of the ship from their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh , and set him and eighteen loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch .
Painting of Mayhew Folger. Original in the collection of the Massillon Museum, Massillon, Ohio. Mayhew Folger (March 9, 1774 – September 1, 1828) was an American whaler who captained the sealing ship Topaz that rediscovered the Pitcairn Islands in 1808, whilst one of HMS Bounty's mutineers was still living.
John Adams, known as Jack Adams (4 July 1767 [1] – 5 March 1829), was the last survivor of the Bounty mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island in January 1790, the year after the mutiny. His real name was John Adams, but he used the name Alexander Smith until he was discovered in 1808 by Captain Mayhew Folger of the American whaling ship Topaz .
He paid his way by working as a carpenter. [2] At Tahiti he found passage on HMS Pelican, a British man-of-war. [3] Tay reached Pitcairn Island on HMS Pelican on 18 October 1886, and stayed until the last week of November. [4] Pitcairn was and still is inhabited by descendants of the mutineers on HMS Bounty. [5]