The imprisoned Bounty crew members had embarked…
April 1792 CE
Here they are transferred to the guardship HMS Hector to await trial.
The prisoners include the three detained loyalists—Coleman, McIntosh and Norman—to whom Bligh had promised justice, the blind fiddler Michael Byrne (or "Byrn"), Heywood, Morrison, and four active mutineers: Thomas Burkett, John Millward, Thomas Ellison and William Muspratt.
Bligh, who has been given command of HMS Providence for a second breadfruit expedition, had left England in August 1791, and thus will be absent from the pending court martial proceedings.
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