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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.
Bligh Reef, a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, named after William Bligh Bligh Island Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, named after William Bligh Bligh Cap, former name of Rendez-Vous Islet ( (in French) Îlot du Rendez-Vous ), an islet in the North-West of the Kerguelen Islands
Bligh published his journal several months after his return to London. Titled Narrative of the Mutiny on the Bounty, it was a bestseller. [208] He published an expanded account, A Voyage to the South Sea, in 1792. Bligh's narrative called the voyage one of "uninterrupted prosperity," and made no mention of personal differences with the crew. [209]
Byam, meanwhile, sets up residency on the island and lives with the island chief, Hitihiti (William Bambridge), and his daughter, Tehani, and he compiles an English dictionary of the Tahitian language. Hitihiti persuades Bligh to allow Christian a day pass on the island. Bligh agrees, but quickly repeals the pass out of spite.
Bligh Reef, sometimes known as Bligh Island Reef, [1] is a reef off the coast of Bligh Island in Prince William Sound, Alaska. This was the location of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill . [ 2 ] After the incident, 33 US Code § 2733 mandated the operation of an automated navigation light to prevent future collisions with the reef. [ 3 ]
William Bligh succeeded Philip Gidley King.Bligh was well known for his overthrow in the mutiny on the Bounty.It is likely that he was deliberately selected by the British government because of his reputation as a "hard man" and was expected to have a good chance of reining in the maverick New South Wales Corps; something that his predecessors had not been able to do. [4]
The Bligh family was an Anglo-Irish noble family which held the title Earl of Darnley. Pages in category "Bligh family" The following 36 pages are in this category ...
Bligh was born in 1685, the son of Irish politician, Thomas Bligh and his wife Elizabeth née Napier. During his long service in the British army, he rose to the rank of Lieutenant General . In 1745, during the War of the Austrian Succession , as a Brigadier, he took over command of allied troops at the Battle of Melle and led part of the ...