HMS Bounty - Expedition to Cape Horn * Funniest SuperHeroes
Channel: Funniest SuperHeroes
Date: 2023-03-13

Full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLtsXqfD6nY

Bligh was anxious to depart quickly and reach Cape Horn before the end of the short southern summer, but the Admiralty delayed issuing the orders for a further three weeks. When Bounty finally sailed on 28 November, the ship was trapped by contrary winds.

On 2 April, as Bounty approached Cape Horn, a strong gale and high seas began an unbroken period of stormy weather which, Bligh wrote, "exceeded what I had ever met with before ... with severe squalls of hail and sleet".

The winds drove the ship back; on 3 April, it was further north than it had been a week earlier. Again and again, Bligh forced the ship forward, to be repeatedly repelled. On 17 April, he informed his exhausted crew that the sea had beaten them, and that they would turn and head for the Cape of Good Hope - "to the great joy of every person on Board", Bligh recorded

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