On the 'Bounty', Captain Bligh wasn't a Captain, he was only a 1st Lieutenant and he ordered a four hour dancing session every evening to improve the mens fitness and morale.
He sailed from Spithead in the UK, to Cape Horn (South America) where the weather was so bad he turned and went across the Atlantic to the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) and on to Adventure Bay, Van Diemens' Land (Tasmania) before he had to issue a single punishment, mroe than 9 months into the trip.
The first death on board was 2 months out of Adventure, and that from an infection picked up there.