A four-story Georgian townhouse in London complete with a blue plaque commemorating its famed former owner, Captain William Bligh, has come up for sale. The property hit the market for the first time ...

The story of the mutiny aboard the HMS Bounty in the spring of 1789 is one of the most celebrated of sea stories. Poets, novelists and filmmakers all have found in it the ingredients of romance, ...

In April 1789, tensions aboard HMS Bounty were already close to breaking. After trouble in Tonga, William Bligh berated Fletcher Christian over a failed shore mission, stolen equipment, and the lack ...

Mutiny on the Bounty. It was just a drop in the bucket to begin with. On the morning of April 28, 1789, goes one version of the story. Captain William Bligh of H.M.S. Bounty refused to give a drink of ...

WILLIAM JOSEPH BLIGH Bligh, William Joseph, age 81, a resident of Fullerton, CA, and formerly of Bermuda Dunes, CA embarked on his eternal voyage on July 16, 2003. Born June 21, 1922 in Rochester, ...

THE LIFE OF VICE-ADMIRAL WILLIAM BLIGH — George Mackaness — Farrar & Rinehart ($5). Most U. S. novel readers and cinemaddicts picture Vice-Admiral William Bligh, captain of H.M.S. Bounty, as a brave, ...

On April 28, 1789, William Bligh woke aboard HMS Bounty with pistols aimed at him and a cutlass in his face. Fletcher Christian, once his protégé, helped seize the ship and forced Bligh toward what ...

As the world well knows, in the year 1789, Lt. William Bligh lost his ship Bounty at the hands of one Fletcher Christian and a handful of miscreants on a voyage back to England from Tahiti, where the ...

For dramatic tension and tragic heroism, few tales of the high seas can match the mutiny on the Bounty. Novelists and screenwriters have kept busy for two centuries ...