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Definition of H.m.s. bounty
1. Noun. A ship of the British navy; in 1789 part of the crew mutinied against their commander William Bligh and set him afloat in an open boat.
Lexicographical Neighbors of H.m.s. Bounty
Literary usage of H.m.s. bounty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"Letters from Fletcher Christian, containing n Narrative of the Transact ions on
board HMS Bounty before and after the Mutiny, with his subsequent voyages ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1831)
"VII,— The eventful History of the Mutiny and piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty;
its Cause and Consequences, ..."
3. Catalogue of Books in the Lower Hall of the Boston Public Library in the by Boston Public Library (1892)
"The mutiny arid piratical seizure of HMS Bounty. 1869. 986.8 BARROW, |. A description
of Pitcairn's island. With an account of the mutiny of the ..."
4. Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: A Catalogue of the Writings, Both Manuscript and by George Clement Boase, William Prideaux Courtney (1882)
"The eventful history of the mutiny and piratical seizure of HMS "Bounty" its
causes and consequences. ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1899)
"Late in 1787 HMS Bounty, under the command of Lieutenant Bligh, sailed from
England to obtain plants of the bread-fruit tree from the islands of Polynesia. ..."
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