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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 ...
Mary Polly Young (28 January 1825 – 16 June 1885) m. Thursday October Christian II, grandson of Fletcher Christian; William Mayhew Young (4 December 1827 – 14 October 1876) m. Margaret Christian, granddaughter of Fletcher Christian; Miriam Young (30 August 1829 – 25 November 1911) m. Isaac Christian, grandson of Fletcher Christian
Fletcher Christian and the mutineers set Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 others adrift, depicted in a 1790 aquatint by Robert Dodd. The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789.
In 1790, nine of the mutineers from HMS Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian, abducted 18 native Tahitians and settled on Pitcairn Island, afterwards setting fire to the Bounty. Christian's group continued under the auspices of Ned Young and John Adams until contacted by Mayhew Folger in 1808, by which time Adams was the only surviving mutineer.
It was later reported that the Coast Guard had recovered one of the missing crew members, Claudene Christian, descendant of Fletcher Christian of the original Bounty. [31] [32] Christian was found to be unresponsive and pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital in North Carolina. [33] [34]
U.S. actor Christian Oliver and his two daughters died in a plane crash near a tiny private island in the eastern Caribbean, according to police in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The crash ...
Safe return; died 1834 Last known survivor of the Bounty Crew Thomas Huggan: Ship's surgeon — — Died in Tahiti before mutiny 1788 Fletcher Christian: Master's mate Acting lieutenant from March 1788: Mutineer Sailed to Pitcairn Murdered on Pitcairn, 1793 William Elphinstone: Master's mate: Loyalist Open boat voyage Died in Batavia, 1789 ...
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