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Edward Edwards

Edward Edwards was a British naval officer best known as the captain of HMS Pandora, which was sent to the South Pacific to capture the Bounty mutineers.

Lived
1728–1815
Nationality
British
Language
English

Edward Edwards was a British naval officer who served during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He is best known to history as the captain of HMS Pandora, the frigate dispatched by the Admiralty to the South Pacific. His mission was to pursue and apprehend the mutineers of the HMS Bounty.