The Royal Navy has said it is "disappointed" after a relic from HMS Bounty was sold at auction, despite attempts to block the ...
HMS Bounty, also known as HM Armed Vessel Bounty, was built in Hull and purchased by the navy in 1787. It was sent to the South Pacific under the command of William Bligh, but members of his crew, led ...
Do beers by the beach for 365 days a year on free land sound like your thing? Well, this area might be for you. However, locals warn that island living "isn't for everyone".
and the arrival of the HMS Bounty mutineers who began to shape its culture. “It is an amazing place, with its history woven into every inch of the fabric,” says adventurer, writer ...
If you’ve seen the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty, you will be familiar with the early residents of the Pitcairn Islands in the south Pacific. In 1789, a group of disillusioned crewmen on HMS ...
Just about every local is either a descendant of the mutineers who stole Captain Bligh’s ship, the HMS Bounty, in 1789 off Tahiti, or they married one. They originally settled on Pitcairn Island ...
The tale of the mutiny is incredibly interesting. In 1787, Fletcher Christian was the first mate on-board HMS Bounty, when it headed to Tahiti on a breadfruit expedition. The band of mutineers got rid ...
Angry descendants of the infamous HMS Bounty mutineers fighting to regain self-rule on Norfolk Island are ramping up their campaign opening their own bank and holding their own elections for officials ...