... His tombstone reads: 3 William Bligh, Vice-Admiral of the Blue, the celebrated navigator ‘who tirst transplanted the Bread Fruit Tree from Otaheita to the West Indies” He died aged 64 in 1817, . y Charles Wesley Another of London’s blue and white memorial ...

... famous expedition of the Bounty originated from the society's offer of a Fnu for the successful transplanting of the bread fruit tree to the West Indies. Captain Bleigh. on his second expedition, transplant not only bread fruit, but manv oth¢ . valuable ...

... in Oxford. Ahohrbhmt&fiovmd the secluded is Captain ydhlflmfi'fle one of their .-m'_s ;mmdmflogym as the man who took the bread fruit tree from Africa to the West Indies, where it flourished and still provides a element of the local diet. His tomb says that ...