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Mutiny on the Bounty (Heinle Reading Library) (2006. Auflage)

von William Bligh

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Cast out from their ship by Fletcher Christian and his rebel band, William Bligh and eighteen seamen were forced to journey thousands of miles to the nearest port in a small open boat, with inadequate supplies and without a compass or charts. This time-honored classic, written in 1790, is Bligh's personal account of an extraordinary feat of seamanship, in which he used a sextant, a pocket watch, and his own iron will to direct an ill-equipped vessel and crew to safety across nearly 4,000 miles of rolling sea.

Bligh's memoir also recounts the events of a routine voyage of scientific exploration to Tahiti that achieved legendary status when it erupted into the world's most famous mutiny. The captain's narrative offers a marked contrast to the familiar tale of film and fiction. Anyone who thrilled to the Bounty movies, along with all lovers of maritime adventure, will be captivated by this story of daring and perseverance.

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Titel:Mutiny on the Bounty (Heinle Reading Library)
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HMS Bounty was originally a merchant ship called the Bethia and it was built at Hull in 1784. In 1787, the ship was purchased by the Admiralty for a voyage into the deep Pacific. The order for this expedition had been prompted by an interest of the British authorities in the West Indies of a proposal to introduce the Tahitian breadfruit to the colonies. It was argued that this crop would be suitable for the slave workers on the sugar plantations as it was cheap to produce and could grow throughout the year. In May 1787, after a consultation with Sir Joseph Banks, the President of the Royal Society, King George III issued an order to the Admiralty to pursue the challenge of transporting breadfruit seedlings to the Caribbean.

The Admiralty were concerned with not placing too much expenditure on the task and after the inspection of several vessels, the Bethia was eventually chosen and purchased for £1,950, as the most suitable. On 16 August 1787, with the support and recommendation of Joseph Banks, Lieutenant William Bligh RN was appointed to command the ship. Bligh had become renowned for both his skills in navigation and his knowledge of the islands in the Pacific, which he had shown from accompanying Captain Cook on his third and final voyage of circumnavigation from 1775 to 1779. To sail through the Pacific successfully, Bligh was aware that the ship he was now assigned to would need some alterations and he immediately ensured that these were performed. The Bethia was restructured to hold the forthcoming cargo of breadfruit. The sail area was shortened to withstand the expected strong winds and cannons were placed for possible conflict. She was renamed HMS Bounty to honour the patronage of the King.

On 23 December 1787, HMS Bounty departed from Portsmouth and made its way to Tenerife. Bligh was concerned for the welfare of his crew and he began to introduce plans to ensure that they remained in good health. He introduced a new and humane watch system, which would give the men four days on and eight hours off. The man whom Bligh gave the command of this watch was Fletcher Christian. Christian had come from an influential and aristocratic Manx family and had sailed with Bligh on two previous voyages. They are said to have been firm friends and Christian's promotion to Acting Lieutenant from Bligh had effectively made him the second in command of the Bounty. However, this caused the ship's Master, John Fryer, to become resentful towards Bligh.

After stopping at Tenerife, HMS Bounty sailed towards Cape Horn, only to be faced with violent storms. After an uncomfortable journey, she then made for the Cape of Good Hope. It is to the credit of Bligh that none of his crew suffered from ill health but throughout the journeys, tensions were beginning to grow. Bligh dealt with a heated quarrel between Fryer and Seaman Matthew Quintal with twenty-four lashes, which would encourage more hostility towards him. Many crew members were unable to appreciate the health regime of nutrition and exercise that Bligh had encouraged or the fact that he was now serving as the ship's doctor, after the discovery of the qualified Surgeon's alcoholism.

On 26 October 1788, HMS Bounty dropped anchor at Matavai Bay, Tahiti. Whilst the accumulation of breadfruit seedlings had only taken six weeks to complete, the departure of the Bounty was delayed by five months. The crew had succumbed to the climate and beauty of the area, as well as the hospitality of the native people. Bligh became engrossed in his study of the island, its people and their culture. The Bounty finally departed on 5 April 1789 but tensions were becoming heightened again. The climate was humid and the ship had become more cramped as the breadfruit had taken up the space. Bligh believed that it had been from having to leave the paradise of Tahiti that had caused a fragmentation of order among his crew.

The eventual mutiny is said to have been provoked over a trivial matter regarding the theft of some coconuts. Bligh was already becoming enraged by the growing indifference of some of the crew to their duties. Christian in particular, was becoming increasingly agitated from receiving the brunt of Bligh's verbal attacks. The strain reached its peak when Bligh publicly accused him of stealing some coconuts from the ship's store. Humiliated, Christian decided to make an honourable escape from the ship to a nearby island. After learning of the sympathy of other discontented crew members to his situation, Christian then decided it was Bligh who should leave the Bounty. On the morning of 28 April 1789, the mutineers dragged up Bligh to the deck of the ship and despite his pleas to Christian for mutual forgiveness, he was cast adrift in the launch. Nineteen other crew members who decided to remain loyal to Bligh were sent into the launch to join him.

Now under the command of Christian, HMS Bounty returned to Tahiti to collect livestock, men and women. Christian had intended to found a settlement on Tubuai but after finding himself involved in the local conflicts there, he sailed back to Tahiti. Christian now found sixteen of the mutineers deserting him but with eight loyal followers and a group of Tahitian men and women, he departed Tahiti on the Bounty, for the last time on 23 September 1789. Realizing that the populated islands could not guarantee safety, Christian placed his attention on a remote uninhabited island that he had found from studying Bligh's charts, known as Pitcairn's Island. Christian displayed his own qualities of navigation and leadership in taking the Bounty over nearly 2000 miles to the incorrectly chartered territory.

HMS Bounty reached Pitcairn's Island on 15 January 1790 and her crew began to build a settlement once it was clear that the land was inhabitable. The Bounty was stripped of all that could be put to use, and then set on fire and destroyed. The optimistic founding of the Pitcairn settlement would eventually lead to discontent and bloodshed. In 1793, conflict erupted from the resentment of the Tahitian men towards the white mutineers’ assumptions of supremacy and privilege. Many were killed in the resulting violence including, it is commonly believed, Fletcher Christian.

After being cast off HMS Bounty, Bligh and his nineteen loyalists began their epic journey to the nearby Dutch colony of Timor in an overcrowded launch for nearly forty-seven days and 3,600 miles. Bligh's great achievement in this predicament was that he navigated the launch without the aid of a chart or any means of obtaining the longitude. Whilst struggling to survive, Bligh produced highly accurate charts and surveys of the seas and of the terrain, such as the Fijian Islands and the north east coast of Australia. On 17 June 1789, the launch finally reached Coupang in Timor. On the 14th March 1790, Bligh returned to Portsmouth and he went on to publish his account of the mutiny and of his voyage to Timor in the July of that year. Bligh was hailed as a hero.

The Admiralty was determined to make an example of the mutineers and sent out HMS Pandora, under the command of Captain Edward Edwards, to apprehend them. Bligh had to face a court-martial to answer for his loss of HMS Bounty but other crew members were required to attend the trial. HMS Pandora reached Matavai Bay on 23 March 1791 and fourteen of the sixteen mutineers there were arrested (the other two had been killed earlier). Unable to find Christian and his eight followers, Edwards departed from Tahiti. Unfortunately, the Pandora struck rocks on Australia's Great Barrier Reef and four more mutineers lost their lives. Finally returning to England on 19 June 1792, the surviving mutineers began their trial in the following September on the HMS Duke. Three were publicly hanged on board HMS Brunswick whilst the remainders were acquitted.

The remaining mutineers, notably Peter Heywood and James Morrison, attracted much publicity during the court-martial and subsequently published their own accounts of the mutiny, which portrayed William Bligh as an appalling commander, whose abuse of power had driven the crew to revolt. Edward Christian, a Professor of Law at Cambridge, sought to protect the reputation of his brother Fletcher, and he produced a damning account of Bligh's leadership in an appendix of the published minutes of the court-martial's proceedings. Hence, when the newly promoted Captain Bligh returned to England in August 1793 after a successful second attempt in transporting the breadfruit to the Caribbean, he found a less enthusiastic reception.

In February 1808, nearly twenty years after the mutiny, Captain Folger of the American vessel, the Topaz, landed at Pitcairn's Island, with the surprise of finding it inhabited. There, he met Alexander Smith (who was also known by the alias John Adams) the sole survivor of the mutineers, who was now the head of the community of the remote island. It was decided to leave the settlement in peace. ( )
  P.S.Dorpmans | Nov 15, 2021 |
It never ceases to amaze me just how interesting the same events described over and over in the driest possible historical professional tone can actually be, when the stakes are high enough. The chapters of this describing the post-mutiny trip of nineteen people in a ship's boat over 3,000 miles, mostly on open sea, is fascinating. The pre-mutiny chapters on the islands are interesting, in the way historical accounts of interactions with natives are always interesting, if a little offputting at times. The very earliest and very latest chapters are basically a chronicle of a naval officer doing his duty in poorly-charted waters and are very, very boring.

(Obviously this is by the man's own hand, so Bligh comes off reasonably well in this book - or rather, he doesn't come off badly. He professes not the slightest understanding of why anyone would mutiny against him, which I think I believe. It does eventually become apparent that in the entire journey from the Bounty to Timor, he never ones mentions something that any of the other eighteen people in that boat actually did on their own initiative, and I find that both unlikely and somewhat telling of the narrator.) ( )
1 abstimmen jen.e.moore | Aug 5, 2015 |
A great collection of original documents about the Mutiny on the Bounty. Together they tell as good a sea yarn as any novel, complete with a Rashomon-like quality as two parties to the mutiny see everything in precisely opposite ways -- while agreeing on fragments of key details. There is some repetition, especially in some of the transcripts from the trial and testimonial letters on the character of Captain Bligh. This repetition, however, contributes to an almost biblical quality to the text as it lists names after names, retells the same story from different perspectives, and compiles narratives with more straightforward information.

Specifically, the items included in this volume are:

--Captain's Bligh's account of the mutiny and his 4,000 mile journey to safety in a long boat following it. Told in precise nautical terms -- dwelling less on the mutiny and more on how he survived following it and what he discovered in the process.

--A partial transcript of the court martial of the mutineers compiled with an appendix by Edward Christian, brother of the chief mutineer Fletcher Christian. This is intended to be largely exculpatory for his brother, arguing the Bligh was a borderline-psychotic taskmaster.

--A reply to the Appendix by Bligh and a short reply-to-the-reply by Christian.

--Captain's Bligh's orders and discoveries.

--An account of a mutineer captured on Tahiti and his transport back to England.

--Two news accounts of the discovery of the last surviving mutineer on Pitcairn Island in the Pacific.

--An account by "Jenny," who lived on Pitcairn Island. ( )
2 abstimmen jasonlf | Sep 21, 2010 |
This book I read as a choice for 8th grade English class and found it to be very enjoyable. The details are amazing. I felt like I was in the tropics on the run from a crazy captain. It was the largest book I had read at the time. Well until I read Gone with the Wind. Amanda Fall 2010
1 abstimmen educ318 | Aug 30, 2010 |
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The King having been graciously pleased to comply with a request from the merchants and planters interested in his Majesty's West India possessions, that the bread-fruit tree might be introduced into those islands, a vessel, proper for the undertaking, was bought, and taken into dock at Deptford, to be provided with the necessary fixtures and preparations for executing the object of the voyage.
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Cast out from their ship by Fletcher Christian and his rebel band, William Bligh and eighteen seamen were forced to journey thousands of miles to the nearest port in a small open boat, with inadequate supplies and without a compass or charts. This time-honored classic, written in 1790, is Bligh's personal account of an extraordinary feat of seamanship, in which he used a sextant, a pocket watch, and his own iron will to direct an ill-equipped vessel and crew to safety across nearly 4,000 miles of rolling sea.

Bligh's memoir also recounts the events of a routine voyage of scientific exploration to Tahiti that achieved legendary status when it erupted into the world's most famous mutiny. The captain's narrative offers a marked contrast to the familiar tale of film and fiction. Anyone who thrilled to the Bounty movies, along with all lovers of maritime adventure, will be captivated by this story of daring and perseverance.

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