Mutiny on the Bounty captain's watch auctioned

The pocket watch was owned by Lieutenant Bligh after the mutiny which made him famous

A pocket watch owned by a ship's captain who was famously set adrift during the mutiny on HMS Bounty is up for sale in an online auction.

Lieutenant William Bligh was overthrown by rebel crew in the South Pacific in 1789 and given a boat and basic supplies.

He then navigated the 4,000 miles (6,482km) to present day Indonesia, and all but one of his 18 crew survived.

The watch is in a lot being auctioned by Sworders of Stansted, Essex.

Hallmarked "London 1802", it is expected to achieve up to £5,000.

Capt Bligh and 18 loyalists, depicted here by artist Robert Dodd, were cast adrift in the South Pacific

Also in the sale are a green glass wine bottle, believed to have been carried on HMS Bounty on its fateful journey, as well as first edition copies of his personal accounts of the mutiny.

The HMS Bounty was on a mission to collect bread-fruit trees from Tahiti and take them to plantations in the West Indies when disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control.

The collection was amassed by HMS Bounty enthusiast John O'Conner, who died last year.

The online auction began on Friday and ends on 26 September.