Fletcher Christian - Wikipedia

Thank you my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that September 25 is the anniversary of the birth of master's mate on board HMS Bounty Fletcher Christian during Lieutenant William Bligh's voyage to Tahiti during 1787–1789 for breadfruit plants. In the mutiny on the Bounty, Christian seized command of the ship from Bligh on 28 April 1789.

Background from historicmysteries.com/what-happened-to-fletcher-christian/
"What Happened to Fletcher Christian? June 6, 2013
The mutiny on the Bounty comes to mind, two compelling characters are at the forefront of the story. Those two characters are William Bligh and Fletcher Christian. One is the villain and one is the hero. Who has each role depends on how you view the story. Either Bligh was a tyrant and Christian a righteous man or Christian was power hungry and Bligh was a victim. Either way, Bligh went home to be exonerated of wrongdoing and Christian slinked off to live the rest of his days in the Pacific Islands, or did he?
The events leading to Fletcher Christian’s mysterious fate occurred in 1789. Bligh and his crew went to Tahiti to collect a cargo of breadfruit, which they did. Three weeks after they left, Fletcher and his fellow mutineers woke the captain in the night and set him out in the open sea on board a small emergency craft. Four men who were loyal to Bligh remained on board the Bounty, as they would not fit in the boat. Bligh went on to navigate a legendary course and survive an amazing journey. Christian went back to the islands.
There are some things that we know about Christian’s adventure virtually as fact. We know about the mutiny because of Bligh and his loyal companions. We know about what happened next thanks to a large number of the men who went with Christian returning to England. First, they went to the islands around Tahiti, which were too dangerous thanks to the natives. Next, they went to Tahiti. Sixteen of the original 24, including those who were still loyal to the Bounty’s rightful captain, stayed in Tahiti when Fletcher Christian made off with the Bounty, 7 English seamen, 6 male Tahitians, 11 female Tahitians and 1 infant.
When Fletcher Christian left Tahiti, we know he went to Pitcairn Island. It was not well charted, which made it less likely that he would be discovered there. The evidence of his voyage to Pitcairn Island is irrefutable. The Bounty was found sunk nearby. It was scuttled by the man and his crew to cover up their lawlessness and to prevent any of them from leaving and bringing the authorities to the others. This is where Christian’s life leaves the realm of verifiable history and becomes reliant on the testimony of two men.
The least feasible of the two accounts of Christian’s whereabouts after the mutiny puts him back in England. Peter Heywood, one of the men who returned to England from Haiti, believed he saw Christian one day on the street. However, even he was skeptical about Christian returning to England. Furthermore, no one else ever saw him in England. Nonetheless, there were reports of rumors that he came to visit a former love and/or his aunt. How he would have managed to return without a working ship has not been surmised.
The other, arguably more feasible, story of the fate of Fletcher Christian puts him at Pitcairn Island until his death. In 1808, Mayhew Folger, the captain of the Topaz, saw several Tahitian young men on Pitcairn Island who spoke good English. He said he was introduced to a man they called their father, but whose name was allegedly Alexander Smith. There were no other Englishmen on the island. Smith told Folger that the mutineers who went to Pitcairn were killed by Tahitian slaves, including Christian. The slaves were in turn killed by Smith and the Tahitian women.
In 1814, two more ships encountered Alexander Smith, who then admitted that his name was actually John Adams, making him the last of the mutineers. He gave more details, but the story that Christian was killed by rebelling slaves remained the same. He left behind three children and a Tahitian wife. You have to wonder if he would have left them to go back to England, where he would have been hanged if caught. He may have gone off to another island, as some suggest, but he would have had to sneak away, build a boat without anyone noticing, leave his children and live alone for the rest of his life. It seems doubtful and there is no evidence for it.
While the only evidence is the testimony of a mutineer, a mutineer’s wife and the reports of three ship’s captains, it makes sense that Fletcher Christian stayed at Pitcairn Island and there is very little doubt that he went there to begin with. He had family on the island. He had enjoyed the tropics so much that he had risked his life to come back. He even sank his only means of returning to England without hitching a ride, which was a slim chance. Without further evidence, it seems illogical to believe the rumors that he returned to England."

The Captain Bligh Conspiracy
"History Channel Documentary looking into Captain Bligh the Royal Navy's most infamous mariner, but was he really the nasty brute that popular culture portrays? On the trail an Australian descendant of the man endeavour’s to uncover the truth."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHTwFHnqGr8

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It was really tough in the British Navy in those days.

Thank you for the great biography share sir.