On April 28, 1789 the British warship HMS Bounty under Captain Bligh was taken over by its crew under the command of Lt. Fletcher Christian. As we all know Bligh and his supporters were set asea on a small boat which they sailed to a friendly port and many of the mutineers were later found and brought to justice. Except of course for Fletcher and a few of his men and their Tahitian wives who found a deserted island and settled there and werent discovered till around 20 years later.
But.
What if after Bligh was set asea his small boat capsized and he and all his men drowned.
1. How long do you think it would have taken for the British admiralty to discover the Bounty and her crew was missing? How long before they searched and how long before they found the truth? Or would they have ever found out the truth?
2. The mutiny, because of how it widely reported on in British newspapers, had a chilling effect on the British navy and forced the navy to take a hard look and how sailors were treated and if certain captains and ships officers were indeed sadists and not the gentlemen they were held up to be?
But lets say while the mutiny happened, nobody ever heard the truth because the guilty parties escaped justice. How would that effect the British navy?