Captain Blighs Boat Abandoned
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Captain Blighs Boat Abandoned
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Print Collector
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Captain Bligh's boat abandoned by the 'Bounty', 1789 (1886). William Bligh is best known for the mutiny that occurred against his command, aboard HMS 'Bounty'. Cast adrift off Tahiti in a launch together with 18 loyal crew members, Bligh successfully undertook a voyage of over 3600 miles to Timor, Indonesia, with the loss of only one man, killed in an attack by natives of the island of Tofua during a stop to procure supplies. He later went on to serve as the fourth Governor of the colony of New South Wales, Australia. Wood engraving from 'Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, Vol I', by Andrew Garran, illustrated under the supervision of Frederic B Schell, (Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co, 1886). (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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