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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. The reasons behind the mutiny continue to be debated.
Sep 5, 2024 · William Bligh was an English navigator, explorer, and commander of the HMS Bounty at the time of the celebrated mutiny on that ship. The son of a customs officer, Bligh joined the Royal Navy in 1770. After six years as a midshipman, he was promoted to sailing master of the Resolution and served.
Sep 19, 2024 · When Lieutenant William Bligh set sail for the East Indian island of Timor on 28th April 1789, he commanded an 18-man crew in a perilously overloaded 23-foot launch.
Apr 27, 2021 · On April 28, 1789, the men aboard the H.M.S. Bounty, a British naval vessel commanded by Captain William Bligh, mounted a legendary mutiny.
William Bligh was an officer in the Royal Navy and was the victim of a mutiny on his ship, the Bounty, in 1789. Bligh (1754–1817) had a reputation for having a volatile temper and often clashed with his fellow officers and crewmen.
Jul 16, 2019 · William Bligh (September 9, 1754–December 7, 1817) was a British mariner who had the bad luck, timing and temperament to be aboard two ships—HMS Bounty in 1789 and the HMS Director in 1791—on which the crew mutinied.
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May 23, 2018 · William Bligh >William Bligh (1754-1817) was an English naval captain and a colonial >governor of New South Wales [1], Australia. Probably best known for his >involvement in the mutiny on H. M. S. "Bounty," he had a career fraught with >controversy.
William Bligh was an outstanding sailor, an accomplished navigator and a cartographer. But because of an uncompromising attitude, bad temper and tyrannical leadership style, he is most often remembered as the captain of the Bounty when its crew mutinied, and as the failed Governor of New South Wales who was overthrown by the military.
Apr 28, 2020 · Just before the sun rose on 28 April 1789, Commanding Lieutenant William Bligh of the HMAV Bounty was woken at cutlass point. The weapon was held by crewmember Fletcher Christian. Bligh was forcibly relieved of his command by a mob of mutineers, and bundled rudely onto a seven-metre-long boat.
William Bligh, (born Sept. 9, 1754, probably at Plymouth, county of Devon, Eng.—died Dec. 7, 1817, London), English admiral. He went to sea at the age of seven and joined the Royal Navy in 1770.
