Midshipman Roger Byam joins Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian aboard HMS Bounty for a voyage to Tahiti ... Christian leads the crew to mutiny on the homeward voyage. Even though Byam takes ...

William Bligh may well be the most maligned man in history. 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 ...

The large piece of copper from the ship, which was at the heart of the infamous mutiny on the Bounty in 1789, fetched £3,800 at a sale run by Hanson Auctioneers earlier. The item was retrieved ...