The crew of the World War II cargo ship USS Reluctant. Mutiny on the Bounty is a sprawling, dramatic tale of intrigue, bravery and sheer boldness, told with the accuracy of historical detail and total command of story that are Peter FitzSimons’ trademarks. The Caine Mutiny excels not just as a tale of the sea but as a courtroom drama. The mutineers’ descendants live on Pitcairn to this day, amid swirling stories and rumours of past sexual transgressions and present-day repercussions. This astonishing story is historical adventure at its very best, encompassing the mutiny, Bligh’s monumental achievement in navigating to safety, and Fletcher Christian and the mutineers’ own epic journey from the sensual paradise of Tahiti to the outpost of Pitcairn Island. But Christian, along with eight fellow mutineers and some Tahitian men and women, sailed off into the unknown, eventually discovering the isolated Pitcairn Island – at the time not even marked on British maps – and settling there. In one of history’s great feats of seamanship, Bligh navigated this tiny vessel for 3618 nautical miles to Timor.įletcher Christian and the mutineers sailed back to Tahiti, where most remained and were later tried for mutiny. Under the leadership of Fletcher Christian most of the crew mutinied soon after sailing from Tahiti, setting Captain William Bligh and 18 loyal crewmen adrift in a small open boat. A closely related series of Marine Mutiny Acts starting in 1755 (28 Geo 2. Five months later, they did not want to leave. Today, mutiny by British forces is punished under the Armed Forces Act 2006. O According to Sergeant Place,John Pearce was the only Marine active in the mutiny, and stated that he observed him joining the Spanish artillery when the. From the initial flashpoint in Bombay (now Mumbai ), the revolt spread and found support throughout British India, from Karachi to. The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history’s truly great stories – a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order – and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before.Ĭommissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty‘s crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. The Royal Indian Navy mutiny or revolt, also called the 1946 Naval Uprising, 1 was a failed insurrection of Indian naval ratings, soldiers, police personnel and civilians against the British government in India. The dramatic story of Captain William Bligh, Fletcher Christian and history’s most famous mutiny, brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia’s storyteller.
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