Mutiny on the Bounty for himself, his clerk Samuel, and his servant John Smith, and sailed on 16 October 1789. Four of the remainder—the master's mate Elphinstone, the quartermaster Peter Linkletter, the butcher Robert Lamb and the assistant surgeon Thomas Ledward—all died either in Batavia or on their journeys home. After the departure of Bligh's launch, Christian divided the personal effects of the departed loyalists among the remaining crew and threw the breadfruit plants into the sea. He recognised that Bligh could conceivably survive to report the mutiny, and that anyway the non-return of "Bounty" would occasion a search mission, with Tahiti as its
Mutiny in the killing of one mutineer, the execution of another, and the marooning of others; on Henry Hudson's "Discovery" resulting in Hudson and others being set adrift in a boat; and the notorious mutiny on the "Bounty". Until 1689, mutiny was regulated in England by "Articles of War" instituted by the monarch and effective only in a period of war. In 1689, the first "Mutiny Act" was passed which passed the responsibility to enforce discipline within the military to Parliament. The "Mutiny Act", altered in 1803, and the "Articles of War" defined the nature and punishment of mutiny until the