‘BTW, Bligh was NOT a Captain when he led the Bounty.’
he was, in fact, a lieutenant in the royal Navy, serving as ship captain on the Bounty; in the 1962 flick, he asserted the Bounty was his first captaincy; in fact, he had served a captain of the mercantile ship Britannia, which his wife’s uncle owned, a far more lucrative position than the Bounty command...
My father was a great lover of the Hall Trilogy. I had a copy of “Men Against the Sea.” Loved it. That book was the impetus for my subsequent studies of the mutiny. It was, and remains, one of the most fascinating stories of the history of the British Navy, at a time when they Ruled the Sea.
Rule Britannia...