This build was led by professional and accomplished local boat builder Andrew Nancarrow supported by trainee Boat Curator Ollie Crediton and Advanced Apprentice in Boat Conservation Reuben Thompson and a small team of museum volunteers and students from Falmouth Marine School. The in-house build of the Bounty launch is part of a programme of reconstructions of historical craft in the museum’s boatbuilding workshop. Photo: Paul Abbitt Guest curatorĬaptain Bligh: Myth, Man and Mutiny has been guest curated for the National Maritime Museum Cornwall by Dr Pieter van der Merwe, General Editor and Curator Emeritus at the National Maritime Museum, Royal Museums Greenwich. Image: The exhibition challenges myths and common perceptions and explores Bligh’s Cornish roots. Uncover the secrets of survival and get a closer understanding of Bligh’s epic feat. This journey has been described as one of the greatest small-boat survival voyages, a triumph of endurance, navigation and leadership against extraordinary odds.Įxperience the reality of this gruelling journey through some of the world’s most remote and unforgiving seas. In a remarkable feat of seamanship, Bligh sailed the heavily overloaded launch to safety across 3600 nautical miles of open sea from Tonga to Timor, in the East Indies. Supplies were only enough to last that many people, on normal rations, for five days. 19 men packed into the launch, which was only 23ft long and little more than 6ft wide. ![]() A triumph of endurance, navigation and leadership…Ĭast adrift in the South Pacific, Bligh and his men seemed to face certain death. Image: Captain Bligh, Myth, Man + Mutiny features a faithful reproduction of the Bounty launch, original relics from the voyage, a fine model of the Bounty has also come from The National Maritime Museum Greenwich and one of William Hodges’s magnificent paintings of Tahiti, from Cook’s second voyage.
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