HMS Bounty Crew List 1787 - Mutiny On The Bounty
CREW LIST
OF THE
HMS BOUNTY
1787 - 1790
This list contains the 46 crew and officers of the HMS Bounty when it left England in 1787 under the command of Captain Bligh.
The events of the voyage are well known. After the mutiny, nine crew members went on to Pitcairn Island, sixteen were left in Tahiti and 18 sailed with Captain Bligh on his epic voyage.
The nine to Pitcairn were; ADAMS, BROWN, CHRISTIAN, MARTIN, McCOY, MILLS, QUINTAL, WILLIAMS and YOUNG. Descendants of many of these are now resident on Norfolk Island.
* = Mutineer + = Loyalist detained by the mutineers.
The Crew
John Adams - Also sailed as Alexander Smith *
Captain William Bligh - Commander
William Brown - Gardener's Assistant*
Thomas Burkett - Able Seaman*
Michael Byrn - Able Seaman +
Fletcher Christian - Master's Mate*
Charles Churchill - Master-At-Arms
William Cole - Boatswain
Joseph Coleman - Armourer +
Thomas Ellison - Able Seaman*
William Elphinstone - Master's Mate
John Fryer - Master
Thomas Hall - Ship's Cook
John Hallet - Midshipman
Thomas Hayward - Midshipman
Peter Heywood - Midshipman*
Henry Hilbrant - Cooper*
Thomas Huggan - Surgeon
Robert Lamb - Butcher
Lawerence Lebogue - Sail maker
Thomas Denman Ledward - Surgeon's Assistant
Peter Linkletter - Quartermaster
Isacc Martin - Able Seaman*
William McCoy - Able Seaman*
Thomas McIntosh - Carpenter's Mate +
John Mills - Gunner's Mate*
John Millward - Able Seaman*
James Morrison - Boatswain's Mate*
William Muspratt - Cook's Assistant*
David Nelson - Gardener
Charles Norman - Carpenter's Mate +
John Norton - Quartermaster
William Peckover - Gunner
William Purcell - Carpenter
Matthew Quintal - Able Seaman*
John Samuel - Captain's Clerk
George Simpson - Quartermaster's Mate
Richard Skinner - Able Seaman*
John Smith - Captain's Servant
Alexander Smith - Able Seaman*
George Stewart - Midshipman
John Sumner - Able Seaman*
Mathew Thompson - Able Seaman*
Robert Tinkler - Midshipman
James Valentine - Able Seaman
John Williams - Able Seaman*
Edward Young - Midshipman
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