The Captain Bligh Conspiracy 

+CaesarInVa : Well said! I also got that impression right from the start but wanted to wait and see what would turn up. Watching this video confirmed all I have read about the real William Bligh, one of the most brilliant seamen to have served in the Royal Navy and who, compared to many, many other naval captains of his day, was an extremely humane and caring commander of men. His changing of the watches from the normal 4 hour on, 4 hour off, to an eight hour routine speaks volumes in his favour. He may well have been uncouth and even insulting at times, but let´s face it, he was dealing with hardened seamen and not a bunch of upper- class pansies! If Fletcher Christian´s terribly incorrigable descendent is anything to go by, his ancestor should have stayed with other softies in the clubs and salons in London instead of going on a long voyage with real men. William Bligh sailed with James Cook on that great discoverer´s third and last voyage to discover the North-West Passage and not only returned to Tahiti twice (as related in the video), later went on to serve under Nelson in the battle of Copenhagen in 1801 as captain of H.M.S. Glatton. Despite the vindictive and soul- shattering accusations of a gang of mutineers trying desperately to save their own necks, he therefore went on to have an honoured career in the navy. As you correctly remarked, Fletcher Christian´s great....great whatever gave the impression of a terribly narcistic and horribly biased individual who obviously refuses to accept the truth and most probably wouldn´t accept it even if the ghost of his ancestor appeared before him and confirmed that only one thing led to the mutiny, and one thing only - that he and the other mutineers had got so used to the Garden of Eden like life on Tahiti, the beautiful and willing women and a life without the discipline of naval life, that they just couldn´t face returing to normal duty. I am glad that with the makers of this video, so many distinguished men have at last come forward to vindicate William Bligh of being the the eternal bad- guy of the HMS Bounty drama - that was Fletcher Christian and the other mutineers who put Bligh and 17 other men into an open boat 2,000 or more sea-miles from civilization - a death sentence under normal circustances (isn´t it typical of the type of person Flether Christian Jr. Jr. Jr. (etc.) is, that he does not once comment on this fact but makes so much of his poor ancestor being allegedly insulted by Bligh! Only Bligh´s fantastic navigational skills and skills as a great leader of men saved his and his men´s life. It´s about time that the false picture of this brilliant seaman and naval captain is corrected.

Might also explain why Fletcher Christian's descendents on Pitcairn are all (yes, literally, ALL) child rapists. Google it.

I'm sure I've read this almost Word for Word somewhere before....Copy paste??

are you the arbiter of plagiarism? raise your intellect before impugning others.

If he rubbed the Army officers treating the Colony as their personal fiefdom then it was no bad thing .

i thought the same thing!

+DrIdaho Mister Glyn Christian shoud be flogged for his lies about brave capitan Bligh.

Brandon M He was exonerated for those mutinies as well.

Exoneration is exoneration and Fletcher Christian was a selfish prick. What happened in Pitcairn Island shows how horrible the mutineers really were.

+Brandon M "if you want to bring up Pitcairn...the trouble stemmed from the 7 crewmen treating the transported Tahitians like servants." That is because Fletcher Christian and his gang were thugs, the type of people who would cause mutiny.

I agree. Brando in this one is so brilliant, funny even.

Right Professor Landrew, I will take your word for it.

FIRSTKAPOKMAN Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment. Thankfully this Island nation is still producing some outstandingly fine women and men ,the only problem is the Governing elite, a thoroughly treacherous gang of self-serving, self -righteous pseudo Homo sapiens.

Ian MacFreeman My pleasure, and also a honour to recognize well deserved reputations. I am glad to hear that captain Bligh was a far better officer than tradition based on popular literature has said upon him.

Yea England was top of the world in the late 1700s. .....except for that little revolution we had here state side they were untouchable.

+Clumsy Aspie That is the point of it, once lost, you can never completely recapture a good reputation.

He says virginity is hard to recapture. Virginity isn't hard to recapture. It's IMPOSSIBLE to recapture.

As is your reputation, once gone. He's being deliberately tongue in cheek and I think you're missing the subtlety of what he's saying.

Nick Penney Thanks for commenting. All the best Nick

Skeefoo Panama …and failed because he didn't treat pirates like pirates.

It is incorrect that the crew were conscripts. Certainly there was some impressment into the Royal Navy but every man on the Bounty was a volunteer, and many, including Christian had served with Bligh previously. The Bounty voyage was no more "deathly" than any others. Bligh had served under James Cook whose voyages were more dangerous and "deadly". Cook himself was killed over a matter of theft by the Hawaiians and Bligh witnessed that event from a distance. Cook flogged more than Bligh, yet is remembered as a hero.

Of course, I'm not excusing any excessive punishment for infractions.

Hey, are you from Pitcairn? How's the rape scene & welfare leeching going these days?

+20th century man Morrison was a mutineer and left behind a journal that, as the one historian points out near the end, is accepted as the unchallenged "truth."

Really?

Anna Ferrara Yes. True. He had to lose weight. Recently, I visited Tahiti and the home of James Norman Hall, the co-author of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY. I talked to his grand daughter, and she told me the Laughton version is the most faithful to her grandfather's book.

+TheAnomalousBiff Agreed. When Pandora found some of those off of the Bounty, Bligh gave her Captain names of those he knew to be loyal so that they could be returned to service. Sadly Pandora never made it back to England. She ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef.

+Justin Lee WTF are you talking about? They didn't court martial Bligh...but the mutineering sailors that were being court-martialed WERE PRESENT.

closer71 They court martialled Bligh in his absence.

In October 1790, Bligh was honourably acquitted at the court-martial inquiring into the loss of Bounty.

+Adrian Larkins He was the captain of a ship during the Mutiny at the Nore....well worth researching, and also was the governor of New South Wales where he tried to outlaw rum as currency, resulting in "the great rum rebellion", was jailed for a year before someone from England came around to check on things and let him go, arresting the ouster.

I think that says Bligh was responsible for the Bounty mutiny.There was a flaw in his character. This video is highly biased in my opinion.

+Adrian Larkins The great mutiny of 97 was a general one many officers were affected by it .

+Jamie Lunsford Trouble from grasping Army officers with a sense of entitlement was not uncommon,the 'White mutiny' ocurred in India at the same time when Army officers thought their privileges were in danger of being curbed .

+Adrian Larkins He may have been caught in the Great Mutiny which affected most of the British Fleet at the time. He was involved in several Fleet Battles, including the Glorious 4th June where he and his ship handled themselves with great distinction. The dispatched written for that action name Bligh, along with some other Captains, for their role during the battle and praising their actions. A ship that is badly led and badly run will not acquit itself in action. The men have to trust the command, to be able to hold their fire until they are at nearly point blank range. Popular fiction tells us that the Mutiny occurred on the Bounty because Bligh was a monster. He wasn't. Christian and other members of the crew were seduced by the beauty of the Pacific and did not want to return to Britain. They are the ones without honour.

YT: "Don't Go To Pitcairn"

No absolutely don't go there but DO go to norfolk island where the present day Pitcairn islanders still live....what people don't understand is that Pitcairn islanders where resettled on norfolk island in 1856 then a few returned making up the current population whilst the majority of decendents have gone on to stay on norfolk island and expanding to Australia and New Zealand so I don't think Pitcairn is a fair representative of the Christian lineage because modern day bounty decendents are from Norfolk lineage separate to that of Pitcairn.

So why were the last two Christians who were mayors of Pitcairn, both claiming direct lineage to Fletcher, convicted serial child rapists?

Because they are rapist but what does that have to do with other decendents nothing, we don't have any contributions to what happens on picairn.

Life probably wasn't great on board , the ship was to small for the mission it was sent on but there's no evidence that Bligh was an especially cruel or unfair commander the film portrayals make him look like Hugh Pigot style psycho captain .

Edward Corran​​​ Yes I understand and life in England was tough at that time too. But replacing one untrue and exaggerated history for another isn't what is needed. Bligh may have been painted far more negatively than he should have been....and being away from England didn't help him defend his case. But...Fletcher Christian... What was his motivation? I guess we will never know exactly what happened. Combination of the ship's conditions, a semi pressed and criminal crew and beautiful Tahitian women.

The two men had known each for a long time on friendly seeming terms , lots of small thing soured the relationship Fletcher Christians tardy attitude about money that Bligh had lent him being one of them , I think ultimately Fletcher Christian resented having some one as his professional superior who he regarded as his social inferior . On ship more suited to the mission with prompt orders,a better crew and a detachment of marines on board its extremely unlikely the same antipathy would have come about or had the same disastrous outcome

Yes.

Really , what for? .

Pithukuli Seeman hello I have answers, firstly the Christian decendents as well as other mutineers had children on Pitcairn island not tahiti, the offspring are however half English half Tahitian. I myself am an 8th generation Christian decendent im white as a ghost I also have other Polynesian backgrounds, some of my direct family have darker completions it's pretty much mixed throughout the whole family, also consider that mutiny decendents have been breeding with kiwis and Australians for many generations.

FIRSTKAPOKMAN I think the whole political system in our so called democracy, needs a complete overhaul, from bottom to top. We need change. Where are you from?

Ian MacFreeman I'm from Kapokland, of course, the inmense, the most amazing, the lovable Republic of Woods, Forests and Trees!Thanks again!

How can you take the journal of a man with a BIG axe to grind against Bligh who was writing AFTER the mutiny, yet pretending the journal was composed before it at face value? That strikes me as insane and suggests you just really want to see Bligh as the stereotype ogre rather than as a human being.