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William Bligh

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William Bligh was the Royal Navy Captain of the HMS Bounty, on which the Bounty Mutiny occured. After the mutiny, the mutineers cast him off the ship into a small boat. Later rescued, he went on to become Governor of New South Wales. There he suffered another mutiny, this time the Rum Rebellion.


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