As a token of its esteem and trust, the British Admiralty had promoted the young Lieutenant Bligh to captain—and packed him off on another two-year mission, back to Tahiti for the infernal breadfruit.

In 1793, Capt. William Bligh docked the HMS Providence in Kingstown in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, a small island nation in the Caribbean Sea, with cargo filled with several hundred sapling ...

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 ...

Dan Snow meets up with Conrad Humphreys and Robert Blyth to learn more about the mutiny on HMS Bounty in 1789. In early 1789, Captain Bligh in the South Pacific suffered a mutiny among his crew on HMS ...

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, ...

In 1789 one of the most infamous events in maritime history unfolded in the South Pacific. Lieutenant William Bligh, commander of the HMS Bounty, was set adrift by mutineers led by Fletcher Christian.

ONE of the best meals ever served in literature is ‘Oysters Captain Bligh.’ The scene is the coast of New Holland, what we now call Queensland. The date, May 1789. There is a three-gallon copper pot, ...

Capt. William Bligh led a mission to introduce seedless breadfruit from Tahiti to the Caribbean islands as a cheap food to feed slaves on British plantations The expedition failed to inventory what ...