UK / Great Britain: Led by Christian Fletcher, mutineers set Lieutenant William Bligh and some of his officers adrift from HMS Bounty, Mutiny on the Bounty. Aquatint by Robert Dodd, 1790

The Mutiny on the Bounty was a mutiny aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty on 28 April 1789. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh.

Eighteen mutineers set Bligh afloat in a small boat with eighteen of the twenty-two crew loyal to him. To avoid detection and prevent desertion, the mutineers then variously settled on Pitcairn Island or on Tahiti and burned Bounty off Pitcairn.

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