HMS Bounty Tahitian woman. Others of the "Bounty"s warrant officers and seamen were also said to have formed "connections" with native women. After five months in Tahiti, the "Bounty" set sail with her breadfruit cargo on 4 April 1789. Some west of Tahiti, near Tonga, mutiny broke out on 28 April 1789. Despite strong words and threats heard on both sides, the ship was taken bloodlessly and apparently without struggle by any of the loyalists except Bligh himself. Of the 42 men on board aside from Bligh and Christian, 22 joined Christian in mutiny, two were passive, and 18 remained loyal to
HMS Bounty "Thirty-Six Years of a Seafaring Life by an Old Quarter Master". Beechey wrote a detailed account of the mutiny as recounted to him by the last survivor, Adams. Bechervaise, who described the life of the islanders, says he found the remains of the "Bounty" and took some pieces of wood from it which were turned into souvenirs such as snuff boxes. The details of the voyage of HMAV "Bounty" are very well documented, largely due to the effort of Bligh to maintain an accurate log before, during, and after the actual mutiny. "Bounty"s crew list is also well chronicled, down