The
mutiny on the
Royal Navy vessel occurred in the south
Pacific on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by Acting Lieutenant
Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship from their captain Lieutenant
William Bligh and set him and 18 loyalists adrift in the ship's open
launch. The mutineers variously settled on
Tahiti or on
Pitcairn Island; Bligh meanwhile completed a voyage of more than in the launch to reach safety, and to begin the process of bringing the mutineers to justice.