Three of the crew members desert the ship before the ship leaves, adding to the discontentment of the officers as well as the crew members. Shortly after the Bounty sets sail for the West Indies, Fletcher Christian leads the mutiny and forces Bligh and some of Bligh’s followers off the Bounty and onto a life boat. Bligh and his followers were striped of charts and compasses; all they were given was the life boat, the oars, a pocket watch, and a quadrant. Bligh and his eighteen followers barely survived the trip in the small boat to Timor, in the Dutch East Indies. Meanwhile, Fletcher Christian and the other crew members returned to Tahiti to reunite with their women and then set sail to Pitcairn Island.
), that are still visible today. The Armada was defeated after the Channel engagements, arguably England’s greatest military achievement (WHAT WAS THIS? EXPLAIN). The remaining ships attempted to take the North Atlantic route to return home, expecting the common hazards of autumnal gales and the usual navigational precariousness that was expected with the lack of technology at the time. However, violent storms with severe and persistent winds led to the majority of the fleet, close on 24 ships, left wrecked along the Irish western coastlines.
In 1588 the Spanish Armada was defeated in the English Channel. When all the English and Spanish ships were in the channel (Spanish greatly outnumbering the English) a massive storm hit wiping out the bigger Spanish ships, making England the mistress of the sea. Right before this war the Spanish had defaulted on their debts 5 times and got absolutely nothing from the war but more debt. At this point Spain is in major debt and was lacking in education, but the nation’s problems were not over yet. The remaining
In 1981 my family attempted to escape from Vietnam. It has been estimated that over half the persons who tried to escape Vietnam by boat died at sea, more than a million persons. But even though it was dangerous we were willing to risk our life because the communist hated my family so bad that we could not survive in Vietnam. There were nine persons in my immediate family when we tried to escape by boat from Thuan An Beach in Hue. My Father, my mother, me, and four brothers, and two sisters tried to escape from Vietnam.
Many Africans refused to eat or jumped overboard, committing suicide. In the Middle Passage alone, it is estimated as many as eight million slaves died. African slaves are closely watched on board The third and final stage of the Triangular Trade involved the return to Europe. Ships returned with goods from the plantations such as cotton, sugar, and tobacco. However, before these goods were loaded on the ship, an entire cleaning of the ships took place.
The ships captain had a drinking problem and on the night of the incident he was unfit to be in charge of the tanker and so left an unqualified crewmember in control. This inexperienced crewmember wouldn’t have collided with Bligh Reef if the ships RAYCAS radar had not been broken and disabled for more than a year before the disaster. The incorrect crewmember being in charge of the tanker (the third mate instead of Captain Joseph Hazelwood) and broken equipment played a huge role in the collision. Environmental Impacts Marine creatures were affected greatly by the spill as the toxic oil disrupted the food chain; the oil massively destroyed plankton numbers as it prevented sunlight from getting through the water (Plankton need to sunlight to grow, reproduce and ultimately end up as food for fish). Recent scientific studies have found that the fish developed gross deformities such as extra fins, or suffered from retarded development.
And to top it all off both of these empires fail for similar reasons. The Han Empire collapsed for reasons such as: undetermined emperors could no longer control powerful warlords, weak emperors let canals and roads fall into disrepair, because of the weak government people started to turn on each other and lose control. But the most important reason for the empire collapsing was because of the economic inequality. Burdened by heavy taxes and crushing debt many peasants revolted destroying the civilization. While this collapse took very little time to happen, the Roman Empire’s decline took about a century to occur.
Furthermore, at the battle of Tsushima on 27 May 1905, the Russian Baltic fleet had sailed almost halfway around the world – from Northern Europe to the Far East – only to lose 25 out of its 35 warships in a crushing defeat by the Japanese navy, this would have made Russian citizens unhappy because they would feel that money was wasted on building these ships and people gave their lives in support of the Russian army, when the tsar would have known that they had no chance of winning, again this is a valid reason for a revolution however I do not think it would have been enough to start one. Also the Russian ships were slow and old and they were attacked by the much faster and more manoeuvrable Japanese, we know this now but at the time I think that the tsar would have tried to hide this fact from his people as he may have known that they would start a revolution therefore this reason is probably not the main reason for the outbreak of the 1905 revolution. The people of Russia would not have been happy at the fact that Russia suffered humiliating defeats in a war with Japan because it would make their country would
He begins his story on a ship that is headed south and followed by a terrible storm. The crew was terrified of the cold storm engulfing their ship until they came across an Albatross bird. Supposedly, this bird was good luck to the sailors since it followed them through the storm and into foggy, but better weather that supported the ship with blowing wind. The mariner was against any idea that this bird could bring such good luck, and decided to shoot it down with his crossbow to rid of the crew’s idea that the sole reason why the ship cleared the storm was because of the Albatross. When the crew first found out about the Albatross losing its life, they were furious.
The factors responsible were both short-term and long-term including, the opposition of the political parties, economic troubles, industrialisation problems and most importantly the Bloody Sunday. The war, itself did not prompt the revolution- it was the fact that Russia lost to a much smaller and almost inferior country. Russia’s huge military defeats were caused by the Russo-Japanese war. An example of such a defeat was in January 1905 when the army had to surrender their Port Arthur naval base in Northern China, which they had possessed before the start of the war. This highlighted the weakness of the military and caused national humiliation, thus contributing to the outbreak of the 1905 Revolution.