Happy Tuesday everyone! If saw our post last week, we kicked off a brand new series on one of the most well-known maritime stories in history - and it was all centered around a fruit! Today, we continue that story as the journey finds their target but the drama is only getting started...
More than 1,000 breadfruit plants collected in Tahiti.
And a crew increasingly at odds with its captain.
HMS Bounty had survived the Southern Ocean, disease, death, and months at sea. But as the ship finally sailed away from Tahiti with its precious cargo, a far greater danger was brewing aboard.
Happy Tuesday everyone! If saw our post last week, we kicked off a brand new series on one of the most well-known maritime stories in history - and it was all centered around a fruit! Today, we continue that story as the journey finds their target but the drama is only getting started...
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33 days battling the storms of Cape Horn.
A voyage halfway around the world.
More than 1,000 breadfruit plants collected in Tahiti.
And a crew increasingly at odds with its captain.
HMS Bounty had survived the Southern Ocean, disease, death, and months at sea. But as the ship finally sailed away from Tahiti with its precious cargo, a far greater danger was brewing aboard.