One thing above all others the British Navy was slow to forgive: mutiny. Though Pitcairn Island had become a British colony in 1893, British ships still shunned the faraway, surf-swept island where ...
BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES: Sunnyvale resident Laura Lorman just got back from “an adventure to Pitcairn Island, one of the remotest places on earth and made famous by the mutiny on the HMS Bounty.
On April 28, 1789, Lieutenant William Bligh, commander of the H.M.S. Bounty, was awakened by men who “seizing me tyed my hands with a Cord & threatened instant death if I made the least noise.” Bligh ...
What looks like paradise hides one of the darkest survival stories in maritime history. Mutineers, Polynesian men, and women were stranded together with no escape. Power struggles, jealousy, and ...
NORFOLK ISLAND, Australia -- A jury of 12 Norfolk Islanders was sworn in Monday for the tiny South Pacific island's first murder trial since it was settled 151 years ago by descendants of the HMS ...
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