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 leading up to the event of mutiny, amounts to Bligh being possessed by some kind of perceived threat. While some investigators have put it down to paranoia, others have alluded to a breakdown in his relationship with Christian, possibly over borrowings, sexual jealousies, or Bligh’s dislike of Manxmen. We now know it definitely wasn’t an imaginary threat, the unassailable evidence contained in Conspiracy on the Bounty has shown us exactly what it was that bedeviled Bligh.
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