Name HMS Narcissus Builder Plymouth Dockyard Completed By 20 June 1781 Launched 9 May 1781 | Ordered 8 August 1777 Laid down 13 June 1777 Construction started 13 June 1777 Length 27 m | |
Fate Wrecked on 3 October 1796 | ||
HMS Narcissus was a Sphinx-class 20-gun sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1781. Most notably in 1782, while she was under the command of Captain Edward Edwards, a mutiny occurred aboard the vessel that resulted in the hanging of six men, and the flogging of an additional 14. Captain Edwards went on to command HMS Pandora, which was assigned to carry the Bounty mutineers back to England.
Fate
Narcissus was wrecked in 1796.
References
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