Admiral Edward Edwards (1742-1815) was a British naval officer best known as being the captain of HMS Pandora, which was sent in pursuit of the HMAV Bounty mutineers. // Events January 24 - Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor. ... The Battle of New Orleans 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Five vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Pandora after the mythological Pandora: Pandora, launched in 1779, was a 24-gun frigate. ... The mutineers turning Lt Bligh and some of the officers and crew adrift from HMAV Bounty, 29 April 1789 The Mutiny on the Bounty was a mutiny aboard a British Royal Navy in 1789 that has been made famous by several books and films. ...

Edwards succeeded (with the help of former Bounty midshipman Thomas Hayward) in finding some of the mutineers, but Pandora shipwrecked before reaching England on the trip back. Edwards was subsequently court-martialed on the HMS Hector and held free from blame. 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Hayward (1767- 1798?) was a British sailor who was present during the Mutiny on the Bounty. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... Nine ships of the British Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hector, named after the Trojan hero Hector in the Iliad. ...

Edward Edwards never received another sea-going command. He subsequently served[1] for a few years as a 'regulating' captain (recruiting officer) in Argyle and in Hull and then resigned himself to (apparently inevitable) inactivity on the half pay list. However, he was promoted to Vice Admiral in 1809.

He hailed from Water Newton, a village in Huntingdonshire near Stamford (Lincs) He was remembered (ca. 1895) by his niece as a "sweet old man", often out on a walk in the country lanes around Water Newton, his birthplace, where he was buried in St Remegius Church in 1815. According to an obituary in the Lincoln, Stamford & Rutland Mercury (21 April 1815), he had suffered for the rest of his life from the effects of the hardships he endured during the open boat voyage to Timor. He died at age 73 in 1815. Water Newton is a village on the northern border of the English county of Cambridgeshire. ... Huntingdonshire (abbreviated Hunts) is a part of England around Huntingdon, which is currently administered as a local government district of Cambridgeshire. ... The Battle of New Orleans 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

Not withstanding his niece's memories, Edwards conduct on the Pandora was every bit as cruel as popular fiction (unjustifiably) claims that William Bligh was on the Bounty. Edwards was pitiless, and kept his captives in miserable conditions as if they had already been convicted (as it was, four of them had been identified by Bligh as being completely innocent and they were subsequently acquitted in London). Four captives and thirty-one crew members perished when the Pandora wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef. William Bligh in 1814 William Bligh (9 September 1754 - 7 December 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator. ... Satellite image of a part of the Great Barrier Reef. ...