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Bligh was Troubled by the French
Conspiracy on the Bounty — Bligh’s Convenient Mutiny: a factual book crammed with fresh supportive material. Bligh was greatly troubled by the French ahead: After the Bounty departed Tahiti and sailed towards Tonga, not only was Bligh confronted with the daily failure of his breadfruits, he was in dread of the French having already arrived […]
Bligh’s Convenient Mutiny
Bligh’s (made-to-order) Convenient Mutiny Question — “If you could have asked Fletcher Christian one question, what would that question be”? * Answer — “Considering that William Bligh made fame and fortune through adversity, and observing that his passive response to his arrest and the mutiny, was most uncharacteristic of Lieutenant Bligh, how much Mr Christian […]
DEMYSTIFYING THE MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
DEMYSTIFYING the MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY Following discussion outlining how breadfruit was but a subsidiary theme of Bligh’s Admiralty Orders: The “Bounty” myth or legend should not be forced upon generations of inquiring minds. There must be freedom to appreciate and acknowledge how science, as it habitually does, confirms, disproves, and or challenges historic accounts […]
High and Dry
What Really Bedeviled Bligh: Two counter-rotating propellers a symbol of non-scientific Bligh-verses-Christian, Christian-verses-Bligh, skewed forms of Hollywood history. Now one simple incontrovertible fact has left the cliché “Captain Bligh” in need of a new resume. All that’s been written that endeavors to account for Bligh’s violent outbursts, especially towards his officers, and particularly Fletcher Christian […]
Pacifist or Villain — Bligh’s Lucrative Mutiny!
Bligh was not a victim in the Bounty mutiny: In January 1989 as the bi-centenary of the Bounty mutiny gathered momentum, a ‘New Yorker’ cartoon showed Captain Bligh drifting away from the Bounty in a rowboat and shouting, “So, Mr. Christian! You propose to unceremoniously cast me adrift?” A lampoon of the famous painting by […]
Who Dares, Loses !
Bountiana in Decline: It is a sad fact that the story of Lieutenant Bligh’s historic launch voyage has been relegated to a trashy reality television show. On 10 July 2017 Australian SBS television re-aired Channel 4’s first episode of “Mutiny”, a five part UK series in which SAS — Who Dares Wins — instructor Anthony […]
Countdown — 9 Days To Mutiny !
As pressure was mounting on Bligh, on 19 April 1789 he made this curious remark in his journal: ‘Mustered all Hands to their Stations and Saw them Clean and I afterwards exercised them at Maneuvering the Ship’. To halt the ship’s progress, way out in the Pacific Ocean, to carry out exercises to maneuver the […]
A total eclipse of Bligh’s launch voyage !
Yet another case of a disappearing journal: Following the mutiny on the Bounty, after Bligh returned safely to England, and before Bligh received his commission to the Providence, Governor Phillip in Sydney Cove was seething. He had discovered that eleven convicts and settlers had absconded in his fishing boat, a ship’s gig – an open […]