With British interest in Tahiti & the South Pacific, we meet with the lives of the crewmen of these historic British ships & the lives of the Islanders that they encountered. We discover the causes and effects that each culture had upon the other, & follow them throughout the 18th & 19th ceturies & what has become of them & their descendants up to today!
We will learn of other British ships that visited Norfolk, Cook Islands, Tonga, Fiji & Tubuai along with charting & encountering other South Pacific Islanders with British whalers & sealers.
Image:Grave of John Hallett, (former midshipman on board HMAV Bounty) in floor of St. Mary's church, Bedford, England
UK ships that visited Tahiti & the South Pacific
HMS Dolphin Capt. John Byron [RN] 1764
HMS Tamar
HMS Dolphin Capt. Samuel Wallis
HMS Swallow Capt. Philip Carteret
HM Bark Endeavour Capt. James Cook
HM Sloop Resolution Capt. James Cook
HMS Adventure Capt. Furneaux
HMS Discovery Capt. Tobias Furneaux
HMAV Bounty Capt. William Bligh
HMS Pandora Capt. Edward Edwards
Pandora's Tender, Resolution Capt. David Thomas Renouard
HMS Providence Capt. William Bligh
HM Brig Assistance Capt. Lt.Nathaniel Portlock
HMS Discovery Capt. George Vancouver
HMAT Chatham Capt. Henry Roberts
Brig Mercury Capt. John Hindric Cox
Lady Penrhyn Capt. William Cropton Sever
Dedicated to the descendants of the crews of these ships. And the peoples of Tahiti & the South Pacific of yesterday & today.