Mutiny on the Bounty

Date: 28 Apr 1789 [unknown]
Location: Tofoa, South Pacific
Surnames/tags: Bounty mutiny bligh

Contents 1 The Mutiny on the Bounty. 1.1 Timeline. 1.2 The Bounty, her Crew and Botanists 1.2.1 H.M.S. Bounty. 1.2.2 Bounty Crew List. 1.2.3 The Personalities. 1.2.4 The Mutiny. 1.2.5 A Few of the Stories. 1.3 Before the Mutiny. 1.4 List of crew set adrift by the mutineers. 1.5 List of mutineers, and others, who stayed aboard the Bounty. 1.6 Some of the crew of HMS Pandora. 2 Sources 3 Acknowledgements 3.1 Contributors 4 Broken Links

The Mutiny on the Bounty.

The "Mutiny on the Bounty" is well-known but the story behind it, to many, has been told through movies and books. The true story of the men of the Bounty and the Pandora is fascinating.

HMS Bounty under the command of Lt. William Bligh, with a crew of 44 Royal Navy seamen and 2 civilian botanists, set sail for the South Pacific to collect breadfruit plants to be taken to Jamaica and the Lesser Antilles for food for the slaves. This was an idea proposed by the famous Joseph Banks of Captain James Cook's Endeavour.

The infamous event took place in the early hours of 28th April 1789.

The mutineers first sailed to Pitcairn Island but when they outgrew the small island some of them relocated to Norfolk Island.

In 1790 HMS Pandora was sent to Tahiti (arriving March 1791) to arrest the mutineers. In August, the Pandora sank on the Great Barrier Reef with the loss of 31 crew and four of fourteen prisoners. The survivors finally reached England after an arduous journey via Australia and Timor in March, 1792.

Timeline.

20 Aug 1787 - Lieutenant Bligh takes command of the Bounty.

23 Dec 1787 - Bounty departs England for Tahiti.

28 Apr 1789 - The mutiny occurred in the vicinity of Tofoa.

14 Mar 1790 - Bligh, Samuel and Smith return to England.

Summer 1790 - Captain Edward Edwards assumes command of HMS Pandora.

23 Mar 1791 - Pandora arrives in Matavai Bay, Tahiti.

29 Aug 1791 - Pandora shipwrecked on the Great Barrier Reef.

12 Sep 1792 - Court-martial on HMS Duke of the ten captured mutineers.

The Bounty, her Crew and Botanists

H.M.S. Bounty.

• The Bounty.
• Voyage of the Bounty.

Bounty Crew List.

• Bounty's Crew List.

The Personalities.

• William Bligh.
• Fletcher Christian.
• Edward Edwards.

The Mutiny.

• The Cause of the Mutiny.

A Few of the Stories.

• The Story of the Court-Martial of the Bounty Mutineers by Douglas Linder.
• Mutiny in the Bounty and Story of the Pitcairn Islanders.
• Bligh! The Whole Story... by Sam McKinney.

Before the Mutiny.

• James VALENTINE, an A.B. seaman, was the first to die. He became ill two weeks before the Bounty reached Tahiti and died from blood poisoning on 9 Oct 1788. He was buried at sea.
• The incompetent surgeon, Dr. John HUGGAN died at Tahiti on 9 Dec 1788 and was buried there.

List of crew set adrift by the mutineers.

• Lt. Bligh and eighteen officers and crew either were ordered into the 23-foot launch or entered voluntarily.
• (^) Twelve of the nineteen men survived an arduous journey to return to England.

N.B. Click on surnames in red and underlined. to view their personal profile;

Surname	First Name	Rank	Died	Place	Notes
BLIGH ^	William	Lieutenant	1817-12-07	England	Dep. Batavia Oct 1789
COLE ^	William	Boatswain
ELPHINSTONE	William	Master's Mate	c.1789	Batavia or At Sea	Never reached England
FRYER ^	John	Sailing Master	1871-05-26	Norfolk, England
HALL	Thomas	Cook	1789-08	Batavia (Jakarta)
HALLETT ^	John	Midshipman
HAYWARD^	Thomas	Midshipman	1798	South China Seas
LAMB	Robert	Butcher	c.1789	Batavia or At Sea	Never reached England
LeBOGUE ^	Lawrence	Sailmaker	1795-06-05	Plymouth, England
LEDWARD	Thomas Denman	Act. Surgeon	c.1789	Batavia or At Sea	Never reached England
LINKLETTER	Peter	Quartermaster	c.1789	Batavia or At Sea	Never reached England
NELSON	David	Botanist	1789-07-20	Coupang, Timor
NORTON	John M.	Quartermaster	1789-05-02	Tofoa	Killed by natives.
PECKOVER ^	William	Gunner
PURCELL ^	William	Carpenter
SAMUEL ^	John	Clerk & Steward			Dep. Batavia Oct 1789
SIMPSON ^	George	Quartermaster's Mate
SMITH ^	John	Cook			Dep. Batavia Oct 1789
TINKLER ^	Robert	A Boy

List of mutineers, and others, who stayed aboard the Bounty.

• Twenty-five crew remained on board HMS Bounty.
  • (#1) Four men were detained against their will.
• Sixteen men were left by Fletcher Christian at Tahiti - 2 were murdered there.
• (#2) Fletcher Christian and eight men sailed away toward an uninhabited Pitcairn Island.
• (#3) The fourteen men captured and arrested for mutiny at Tahiti. However, not all were found guilty and only three were hanged.
• (#4) Four prisoners died when the Pandora was shipwrecked on the Great Barrier Reef.
• Pitcairn Island named by Fletcher Christian.
• Five men were murdered by the Tahitian men who had accompanied the mutineers to Pitcairn Island.
• The six male Tahitians who accompanied the mutineers were murdered.
• The last four of the mutineers were (in order): Quintall, McCoy, Young, and Adams.
• Twenty-three children were born to the mutineers: Christian (3), Mills (2), McCoy (3), Quintall (5), Young (6) and Adams (4). Williams, Martin and Brown had no children.
• In February 1808 Capt. Mayhew Folger, of the American (Boston) ship Topaz, accidentally found the inhabitants of Pitcairn Island.

N.B. Click on surnames in red and underlined to view their personal profile.

Surname	First Name	Rank	Died	Place	Notes
ADAMS #2	John	A.B. seaman	1829-03-05	Pitcairn Island	Last of the Mutineers
BROWN #2	William	Asst. Botanist	1793-09-20	Pitcairn Island	Murdered by the Tahitians.
BURKETT #3	Thomas	A.B. seaman	1794-10-29	England	Tried, Hanged.
BYRNE #1,#3	Michael				Tried, Acquitted.
CHRISTIAN #2	Fletcher H.	Master's Mate	1793-09-20	Pitcairn Island	Murdered by the Tahitians.
CHURCHILL	Charles	Master-at-Arms	c.1790	Tahiti	Murdered by M. Thompson.
COLEMAN #1,#3	Joseph	Armourer			Tried, Acquitted.
ELLISON #3	Thomas		1794-10-29	England	Tried, Hanged.
HEYWOOD #3	Peter	Act. Midshipman	1831-02-10	London, England	Tried, Pardoned.
HILLBRANT #3,#4	Henry	Cooper	1791-08-29	Australia	Lost at sea; Pandora.
MARTIN #2	Isaac		1793-09-20	Pitcairn Island	Murdered by the Tahitians.
McCOY #2	William		c.1799	Pitcairn Island	While drunk committed suicide.
McINTOSH #1,#3	Thomas	Carpenter's Man			Tried, Acquitted.
MILLS #2	John	Gunner's Mate	1793-09-20	Pitcairn Island	Murdered by the Tahitians.
MILLWARD #3	John		1794-10-29	England	Tried, Hanged.
MORRISON #3	James	Boatswain's Mate	1807-02-01	Lost at sea; Blenheim.	Tried, Pardoned.
MUSPRATT #3	William	Cook's assistant			Tried, Pardoned.
NORMAN #1,#3	Charles	Carpenter's Mate			Tried, Acquitted.
QUINTAL #2	Matthew	AB Seaman	c.1799	Pitcairn Island	Put to death by Young & Adams.
SKINNER #3,#4	Richard		1791-08-29	Australia	Lost at sea; Pandora.
STEWART #3,#4	George	Act. Midshipman	1791-08-29	Australia	Lost at sea; Pandora.
SUMNER #3,#4	John		1791-08-29	Australia	Lost at sea; Pandora.
THOMPSON	Matthew		c.1790	Tahiti	Murdered by Churchill's friends.
WILLIAMS #2	John		1793-09-20	Pitcairn Island	Murdered by the Tahitians.
YOUNG #2	Edward	Act. Midshipman	1800-12-25	Pitcairn Island	Died of asthma.

Some of the crew of HMS Pandora.

• The 24-gun frigate HMS Pandora was sent to capture the mutineers in the South Pacific.

N.B. Click on surnames in red and underlined. to view their personal profile;

Surname	First Name	Rank	Died	Place	Notes
CORNER		Lieutenant
EDWARDS	Edward	Captain	1815	England	Ended his career as Admiral.
HAMILTON	George	Surgeon
HAYWARD	Thomas	3rd Lieutenant			He was a midshipman on the Bounty.
LARKAN		Lieutenant
MOULTER	William	Boatswain's Mate
PARKIN		Lieutenant

Sources

• http://www.infoplease.com/spot/pitcairn.html
• Queensland Museum.
• Wrecksite - Pandora.
• Find-a-Grave.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty
• http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=pr&FSctf=230
• Bounty's Crew Encyclopedia.

Acknowledgements

Thank you for showing an interest in this page.

Contributors

• Kevin J. Sands

Broken Links

Please let me know... thanks, Kevin J. Sands