Rare Captain Bligh medals to be auctioned in Australia

Captain Bligh, who is best known for being ousted from his post aboard the HMS Bounty by a mutinous crew, won the medals during his long and distinguished career in the Royal Navy.

The medals themselves, which have been handed down by Capt Bligh’s descendants for generations, have been described as “extremely rare”, but it is their association with the renowned seafarer that lends them special value.

Capt Bligh was on a mission to bring back breadfruit, which the British empire hoped it could cultivate to feed to slaves in the West Indies, in 1789 when the famous mutiny took place and he and a group of his men were set adrift in a 22ft launch without navigation equipment in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

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Story by Bonnie Malkin