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The 1789 mutiny on the Bounty is an infamous tale of sailors being lured by the easy charms of the South Seas into casting adrift their commander and living out their days as fugitives from the Royal...

Mutineers turning Captain William Bligh (1754-1817) and loyal officers and crew adrift from His Majesty's Ship the Bounty, April 29, 1789. The mutiny was led by master’s mate Fletcher Christian (1764-1793).

Bounty II, a replica of the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty which was famously taken over by mutineers in 1789 in Polynesia.

The HMS Gloucester was wrecked in the North Sea, about 30 miles off the shore of Norfolk, England, shortly after dawn on 6 May 1682. It was a warship in the navy of Charles II of England (r. 1660-1685), and at the...

Smasher of Napoleon's invasion dream, veteran of three major wars, and scene of the death of the Royal Navy's greatest hero, HMS Victory is one of Britain's most famous warships. Curiously...

A set of stamps issued in 1940 by Pitcairn Island commemorating the 1789 Bounty mutiny. Fletcher Christian led the mutineers to Pitcairn where they established a community.

A watercolour painting by Joseph Nash (1809-78) of the Riding School Hall at Windsor Castle and showing the distribution of bounty to the poor on 1 January 1846 organised by Queen Victoria (reign 1837-1901). (Royal Collection...

The Gaspee Affair was an incident that occurred on 10 June 1772, when a group of American colonists from Rhode Island seized and burned the Royal Navy schooner HMS Gaspee after it had run aground. The affair contributed to the worsening...

An aerial photograph of the Royal Navy warship HMS Victory in dry dock at Portsmouth, England. The ship was once flagship of Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

A May 1912 photograph of HMS Dreadnought, the Royal Navy battleship built in 1906 and which served in the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums, London.