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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.
William Bligh (born September 9, 1754, probably at Plymouth, county of Devon, England—died December 7, 1817, London) was an English navigator, explorer, and commander of the HMS Bounty at the time of the celebrated mutiny on that ship.
The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship from their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and set him and eighteen loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch.
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.
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.
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.
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.
William Bligh (1754-1817), naval officer and governor, was born on 9 September 1754 at Plymouth, England, where his father was a boatman and land waiter in the customs service. He was descended from a family settled in St Tudy, Cornwall, since 1680, whose members had been mayors of Bodmin in the sixteenth century.
May 23, 2018 · William Bligh (1754-1817) was an English naval captain and a colonial governor of New South Wales, Australia. Probably best known for his involvement in the mutiny on H. M. S. "Bounty," he had a career fraught with controversy.
Mar 21, 2010 · The Man and the Mutiny. ‘Irascible, courageous, brilliant Bligh, because he had an ungovernable tongue and a short, explosive temper provoked rebellion where there was no justification and revolt where there was no reason. He remains in spite of it a great sea captain, an indomitable man.’. David Divine.
