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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 (Plymouth, Devon, 9 de setembro de 1754 — Londres, 7 de dezembro de 1817), conhecido como Capitão Bligh, foi um oficial britânico da Marinha Real Britânica, chegando ao posto de vice-almirante e também administrador colonial.
William Bligh was an English navigator, explorer, and commander of the HMS Bounty at the time of the celebrated mutiny on that ship. The son of a customs officer, Bligh joined the Royal Navy in 1770. After six years as a midshipman, he was promoted to sailing master of the Resolution and served.
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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 (9 de setembro de 1754 – 7 de dezembro de 1817) foi um marinheiro britânico que teve a má sorte, tempo e temperamento de estar a bordo de dois navios - HMS Bounty em 1789 e o HMS Director em 1791 - nos quais a tripulação se amotinou.
27 de abr. de 2021 · Learn how Captain William Bligh and his loyal crew survived the legendary mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty in 1789, and what happened to the rebels who seized the ship and sailed to Tahiti and Tonga.
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.
