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  2. HMS Bounty - Wikipedia

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    HMS Bounty, also known as HM Armed Vessel Bounty, was a British merchant ship that the Royal Navy purchased in 1787 for a botanical mission. The ship was sent to the South Pacific Ocean under the command of William Bligh to acquire breadfruit plants and transport them to the British West Indies .

  3. Mutiny on the Bounty - Wikipedia

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    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. The reasons behind the mutiny are ...

  4. Bounty (1960 ship) - Wikipedia

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    Bounty was an enlarged reconstruction of the original 1787 Royal Navy sailing ship HMS Bounty, built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in 1960. She sank off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012.

  5. Bounty Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Bounty Museum holds the most important collection of Norfolk Island artifacts in the world.The centrepiece of the museum's collection is the 6 metre-long replica of the HMAV Bounty Launch. Other important objects include cannon balls from the wreck of the HMS Sirius's, objects relating to the islands convict days, as well as objects that ...

  6. William Bligh - Wikipedia

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    Vice-Admiral William Bligh FRS (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was a British officer in the Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. He is best known for the mutiny on HMS Bounty, which occurred in 1789 when the ship was under his command.

  7. Charles Churchill (mutineer) - Wikipedia

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    Charles Churchill (1759–1790) was the master at arms on board HMAV Bounty during Lieutenant William Bligh's voyage to Tahiti to transplant breadfruit to the British colonies in the West Indies. During a mutiny on the ship , Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian seized command of the ship from Bligh on 28 April 1789.

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