Content tagged with “navy” under “Stuff I Looked Up”

“William Bligh was the (purportedly) ruthless and cruel captain of the HMS Bounty , the crew of which famously mutinied in 1789. Bligh and his loyalists were set adrift in a small boat, and the Bounty continued on to the Pitcairn Islands , where the mutineers settled with some Polynesian women they…”