Cyprus mutiny the mutiny in which the mutineers are depicted as birds. Cyprus mutiny The "Cyprus" mutiny took place in 1829 off the British penal settlement of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania, Australia). Convicts seized the brig and sailed her to Canton, China, where they scuttled her and claimed to be castaways from another vessel. On the way, "Cyprus" visited Japan during the height of the period of severe Japanese restrictions on the entry of foreigners, the first Australian ship to do so. The mutineers were eventually captured. Two of them, George James Davis and William Watts, were hanged at Execution Dock,
David George Watts David George Watts David George Watts (14 May 1931 - 14 October 2016), known as George Watts, was an English local historian closely associated with the work of the "Victoria County History" (VCH) and the history of Titchfield, Hampshire. David George Watts was born in the Old Inn House, West Street, Titchfield, Hampshire, on 14 May 1931, into a family of strawberry growers which was an important local industry. In a local history talk he recalled that as a boy he could walk from Titchfield to Warsash alongside strawberry fields the whole distance. His family aimed to harvest their first