Fletcher Christian
Fletcher Christian was masters mate on board HMS Bounty during Lieutenant William Blighs voyage to Tahiti for breadfruit plants. In the mutiny on the Bounty, Christian seized command of the ship from Bligh onApril 1789.
Christian was born onSeptember 1764, at his family home of Moorland Close, Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth in Cumberland. Fletchers fathers side had originated from the Isle of Man and most of his paternal greatgrandfathers were historic Deemsters, their original family surname McCrystyn.
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