On 28 april 1789 on route to the Caribbeans Fletcher Christain led a mutiny aboard H.M.S.Bounty.

The Mutineers set Captain William Bligh and 18 of his crew adrift in the ships launch.

Christian safely sailed the pirated and under-manned Bounty on an epic 8,000 mile Pacific voyage in
search of a haven. 

He sailed to Tahiti and with six Tahitian men and twelve women aboard eventually came upon Pitcairn Island where they settled in 1790.

The Mutineers who elected to stay at Tahiti were captured and sailed back to England on board H.M.S. Pandora where they faced Court Martial.