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EVENTS MATRIXING: RESTRICTION, CONFUSION & NEGLECT IN THE BOUNTY MUTINY
THE MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY: Dramatis Personae
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS:
- Lieutenant William Bligh, RN. Commanding Officer.
WARRANT OFFICERS:
- John Fryer, Sailing Master. (First Watch Officer)
- William Peckover, Gunner. (Second Watch Officer)
- William Cole, Bosun.
- William Purcell, Carpenter.
- Thomas Huggan, Surgeon. (Died 9 Dec 1788, Tahiti).
PETTY OFFICERS:
- William Elphinstone, Masters Mate.
- Fletcher Christian, Masters Mate. (Third Watch Officer, then Acting Executive Officer)
- Peter Linkletter, Quartermaster.
- John Norton, Quartermaster.
- Joseph Coleman, Armourer.
- Lawrence Lebogue, Sailmaker.
- John Mills, Gunner's Mate.
- Charles Norman, Carpenter's Mate.
- George Simpson, Quartermaster's Mate.
OTHER OFFICERS:
- Thomas Denman Ledward, Assistant Surgeon.
- Charles Churchill, Master At Arms.
- John Samuel, Captain's Clerk.
- John Smith, Captain's Steward.
- David Nelson, Botanist.
- William Brown, Botanist's Assistant.
ABLE-BODIED SEAMEN:
- Thomas Ellison
- Thomas Burkitt
- Isaac Martin
- William McKoy
- John Millward
- William Muspratt
- Matthew Quintal
- Richard Skinner
- John Adams ("Alexander Smith")
- John Sumner
- Matthew Thompson
- James Valentine
- John Williams
- Thomas Hall, Cook
- Robert Lamb, Butcher
- Henry Hillbrandt, Cooper
- Michael Byrne, Fiddler
MIDSHIPMEN:
- Edward Young
- Robert Tinkler, Cook
- Peter Heywood
- Thomas Hayward
- George Stewart
- John Hallet
NB: several of the crew with assigned positions were taken on as AB's, including
several midshipmen, Assistant Surgeon Ledward, the blind Irish Fiddler Michael Byrne, who
were not sailors & thus not actual Able-Bodied-Seamen. Other AB's such as the butcher,
cooks, cooper, etc, would not have done much sailing, being assigned as staff, not as
members of a watch.
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