The Bounty was a coal-carrying merchant ship operating on the coast of England. She was purchased by the admiralty and recommissioned in 1787 and sail halfway around the world to Tahiti, collect cargo and transport it to the West Indies.
On the return trip, the famous Captain Bligh was so strict with the crew that it turned into a mutiny, Christian Fletcher took command of the ship, put Bligh to sea in a lifeboat.
The mutineers eventually settled on Pitcairn Island, they burned the ship on Bounty Bay and were not found for 25 years. But at last, the group who mutinied were captured and judged by the English court, where three were condemned and the rest acquitted.
