Ned Young Ned Young Edward "Ned" Young (c. 1762 – 25 December 1800), was a British sailor, mutineer from the famous HMS "Bounty" incident, and co-founder of the mutineers' Pitcairn Island settlement. Young was born on the West Indian island of St. Kitts. He apparently came from a poor family, but he did attend school. He joined the crew of HMS "Bounty" as a midshipman in 1787 when she sailed from England to Tahiti. After the "Bounty" departed from Tahiti in 1789 several sailors and officers, including Fletcher Christian, mutinied against its captain, Lieutenant William Bligh. Young was asleep during the mutiny,
Mutiny on the Bounty added a level of homoeroticism to the Bligh–Christian relationship. In 1998, in advance of a BBC documentary film aimed at Bligh's rehabilitation, the respective descendants of the captain and Christian feuded over their contrary versions of the truth. Dea Birkett, the programme's presenter, suggested that "Christian versus Bligh has come to represent rebellion versus authoritarianism, a life constrained versus a life of freedom, sexual repression versus sexual licence." Footnotes References Online Newspapers Bibliography Mutiny on the Bounty The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel occurred in the south Pacific on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by Acting Lieutenant Fletcher