hms bounty

Perhaps you saw a few seconds of the amazing U.S. Coast Guard rescue of the crew of the HMS Bounty on the news. Here is a much longer version right from the Coast Guard of the daring rescue of the ship's crew during Hurricane Sandy.

Today is the date in 1789 that Fletcher Christian led a mutiny of His Majesty’s Ship Bounty where Captain William Bligh and 18 of his loyal men were set adrift in a small open boat.  The Bounty had left England nearly a year and a half before with Tahiti as its destination where it was to pick up a load of breadfruit trees.  After 10 months at sea the Bounty finally arrived in Tahiti where the cre