Quartermaster on board the Bounty.
A loyalist.
Peter Linklater, Linkletter, or Lenkletter, was 30 years old when he joined the Bounty on 29 August 1787, the same day as his crewmate, William Elphinstone. The two men appear to have been friendly, and likely had served together before, perhaps on their last ship.
Linkletter is not mentioned much in the literature on the mutiny. We do know that he belonged to the "anti-Bligh group" among the men in the Bounty's launch. Linkletter and Purcell had both seen Bligh appropriate extra rations for himself during the voyage and told Bligh so to his face. Bligh retaliated by imprisoning them on a ship in the harbor of Coupang.
Linkletter died of a tropical disease (probably malaria) in Batavia within a fortnight after Bligh's departure for England.
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Quartermaster on board the Bounty.
A loyalist.
Peter Linklater, Linkletter, or Lenkletter, was 30 years old when he joined the Bounty on 29 August 1787, the same day as his crewmate, William Elphinstone. The two men appear to have been friendly, and likely had served together before, perhaps on their last ship.
Linkletter is not mentioned much in the literature on the mutiny. We do know that he belonged to the "anti-Bligh group" among the men in the Bounty's launch. Linkletter and Purcell had both seen Bligh appropriate extra rations for himself during the voyage and told Bligh so to his face. Bligh retaliated by imprisoning them on a ship in the harbor of Coupang.
Linkletter died of a tropical disease (probably malaria) in Batavia within a fortnight after Bligh's departure for England.
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