Captain Bligh all at sea after Coastguard mutiny. By Alan Hamilton. (The Times - UK)
THERE has been a mutiny. Captain Bligh has been forced to relinquish his command, abandon ship and row the
stormy seas of the job market in the equivalent of an open boat.
This is Captain Stephen Bligh, who enjoys the bounty of a £130,000 annual salary as head of the Government’s
Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
Yesterday the Department for Transport confirmed that he would leave his post at the end of the month after
a vote of no confidence by his crew of 1,100 coastguards and marine safety inspectors.
Trouble has been brewing on the agency’s quarter-deck for two years, ever since the latter-day Captain Bligh
— who claims descent from his 18th-century namesake whose crew mutinied on HMS Bounty — announced
plans to streamline the service by closing some coastguard stations and merging others.
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