On This Day.(Features)

The Birmingham Post (England) | December 26, 2002 | Copyright

1787: The Bounty was launched at Spithead: Thecollier ship Bethia, renamed HMS Bounty sailed from Spithead with Captain William Bligh and a crew of 45 men bound for Tahiti to collect breadfruit plants to be ...

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