His name has become a byword for cruelty; a tyrant who drove the crew of his ship, HMS Bounty, to such despair that they were forced into the most famous of all mutinies. It’s almost complete ...

The gun fetched more than expected when it went under the hammer in Dumfries A naval gun believed to be from HMS Bounty has sold for £17,000 at auction in Dumfries. The item attracted ...

Its inhabitants are mostly descendants of HMS Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian companions who settled there in the 18th century. With no airport and only reachable by a two-day boat trip ...

John Coleman, from Benfleet in Essex, said he retrieved the large piece of copper sheathing from HMS Bounty in the Pitcairn Islands in 1973. He displayed the impressive find - patinated with ...

These relics of HMS Bounty are sheathing nails that were used to fix protective copper sheathing to hull. After Fletcher Christian and the mutineers arrived at Pitcairn they stripped the Bounty of ...

Back in 1789, British sailors in the Pacific mutinied on the HMS Bounty and settled on Tahiti and Pitcairn Island. While the mutineers on Tahiti were later arrested by the British, those on ...

Midshipman Roger Byam joins Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian aboard HMS Bounty for a voyage to Tahiti. Bligh proves to be a brutal tyrant and, after six pleasant months on Tahiti, Christian ...