An aside identifies Admiral Edward Edwards, a Royal Navy officer who lived from 1741 to 1815. As captain of HMS Pandora, he sailed to the South Pacific in pursuit of the Bounty mutineers. The biographical detail connects an otherwise easily overlooked admiral to one of the best-known searches in eighteenth-century naval history.
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Edward Edwards commanded HMS Pandora
A short biographical aside connects Admiral Edward Edwards to HMS Pandora and the pursuit of the Bounty mutineers.