Norfolk Island P&O Ccruise

FREE CRUISE SHIP MAGAZINE (E-MAGAZINE) http://fliphtml5.com/bookcase/dtxj If you like Cruise ship holidays or would like to find out more than this is the magazine for you Good News: MyCruise Magazine totally FREE subscription. To help make the MyCruise Magazine even better I would like to encourage you to share the magazine link with your colleague’s family and friends. If you would like to be added to the VIP subscription please send an email to mycruisemagazine@bigpond.com and in the subject area place the word (subscription) Here is the link to the 1st issue of MyCruise Magazine: http://fliphtml5.com/icmw/ibti This video has been featured in the MyCruise Magazine as a active link from the magazine www.mycruisemagazine.com.au Norfolk Island - P&O Cruises Australia J131 Bounty Adventure Noel Sadler Skip Film Productions skipfilms@bigpond.com www.skipfilms.com.au Mobile 0488 201 882 Sydney Australia We were lucky to visit Norfolk Island on the P&O cruise ship the Pacific Jewel on the 16th October 2011; we meet up with Dot Salt and her family, who provided us with the warmest and heartfelt welcome for which Norfolk Island is well known for. Dot and her family are descendents of the mutiny on the Bounty which was a mutiny that occurred aboard the British Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty on 28 April 1789 The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the commanding officer, William Bligh. According to most accounts, the sailors were attracted to the idyllic life on the Pacific island of Tahiti and repelled by the harsh treatment from their captain. Eighteen mutineers set Lieutenant Bligh and 18 of the 22 crew loyal to him afloat in a small boat. Mutineers then settled on Pitcairn Island or in Tahiti. The Bounty was subsequently burned off Pitcairn Island to avoid detection and to prevent desertion. Descendants of some of the mutineers and Tahitians still live on Pitcairn Island. After Bligh and his crew of 18 made an epic and eventful journey in the small boat to Timor in the Dutch East Indies, he returned to England and reported the mutiny, later many of the residents moved from Pitcairn Island to Norfolk Island' As an ex-Royal Navy man, David has no time for mutineers. "And," he points out, "Bligh was a superb navigator and hydrographer." This is undeniable. Bligh's post-mutiny feat of getting 18 men across the open sea from these water to Timor, 3618 nautical miles away, was exceptional. But his courage and strong sense of duty were outweighed by his vindictiveness, verbal abusiveness and hypercriticism of others. I point out to David that, "Bligh's men preferred to be flogged with the cat o' nine tails, rather than be lashed by his poisonous tongue." David shrugs. "Words, just words. Christian should have toughened up." I persist in defending Christian, Bligh's young acting lieutenant. "Remember, he'd had to leave his lover, Isabella, behind in Tahiti, and she was pregnant with their child." I just can't help but side with Christian. I've recently been on Pitcairn Island, where Fletcher (or "Flatcher", in the islanders' distinctive dialect) is still accorded heroic status by his many descendants. It is the same on Norfolk Island, to which many descendants of the mutineers from Pitcairn moved in 1856. "No," I aver, "Bligh made Christian's life unbearable." Captain McBain has been listening closely to this discussion. First making sure the microphone is switched off, he says to David and me, "I know we're in the exact position, but you two aren't going to re-enact the mutiny on my ship, are you?" He smiles. "And I did take the precaution of locking my First Officer in his cabin this morning." Earlier that morning, Captain McBain had provided the commentary as the ship cruised alongside Nomuka, a low island in Tonga's Ha'apai group, where the incident occurred which sparked the mutiny. As Master on James Cook's Resolution in 1777, William Bligh had called at the island to take on supplies. So 12 years later he felt confident about anchoring the Bounty off Nomuka and sending a landing party ashore, led by Fletcher Christian, to gain provisions. But the Friendly Isles, as Cook had named them, were now distinctly unfriendly. Cook had deeply offended the Tongans by taking two chiefs hostage and treating them in a humiliating manner, and 12 years later, the locals still remembered this grievous insult.