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The captain of the ship, Captain Blah, was a domineering man with a uniform resembling the historical figure William Bligh. [76] The seventeenth-season Simpsons episode, "The Wettest Stories Ever Told", parodies the mutiny on the Bounty. Fletcher Christian (Bart Simpson) leads a mutiny against Captain William Bligh (Seymour Skinner). [77]
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. The reasons behind the mutiny are still debated. Bligh and his crew stopped for supplies on Tofua, where a crew member was killed. Bligh ...
Caroline Alexander, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, Viking Penguin, 2003, hardcover, 512 pages, ISBN 0-670-03133-X William Bligh, A Narrative of the Mutiny on board His Majesty's ship Bounty; and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship's boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch ...
Fletcher Christian was born on 25 September 1764, at his family home of Moorland Close, Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth in Cumberland, England.His father's side of the family had originated from the Isle of Man and most of Fletcher's paternal great-grandfathers were historic Deemsters, their original family surname being McCrystyn.
Admiralty Plan of the Bounty Plan of the lower decks of the Bounty Plan of the lower decks of the Bounty Plan and section of the Bounty Armed Transport showing the manner of fitting and stowing the pots for receiving the bread-fruit plants, from William Bligh's 1792 account of the voyage and mutiny, entitled A Voyage to the South Sea, available from Project Gutenberg.
Dando-Collins, Stephen, Captain Bligh's Other Mutiny: The True Story of the Military Coup that Turned Australia into a Two-Year Rebel Republic, Sydney, Random House, 2007. Davis, Russell Earls. Bligh in Australia: A New Appraisal of William Bligh and the Rum Rebellion. Woodslane Press, 2010.
The True Story Behind Lockerbie. Rachel Brodsky. January 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM. O n Dec. 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. All 259 ...
The court of inquiry [5] of Commanding Lieutenant William Bligh for the loss of HMS Bounty to mutineers begins. Via flashbacks, Bounty sets out from Portsmouth, England on 23 December 1787, on an expedition to Tahiti to gather breadfruit pods for transplantation in the Caribbean, Bligh electing to sail the ship west round the tip of South America to use the expedition to fulfill an ambition to ...