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HMS Bounty, also known as HM Armed Vessel Bounty, was a British merchant ship that the Royal Navy purchased in 1787 for a botanical mission. The ship was sent to the South Pacific Ocean under the command of William Bligh to acquire breadfruit plants and transport them to the British West Indies.
Bounty was an enlarged reconstruction of the original 1787 Royal Navy sailing ship HMS Bounty, built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in 1960. She sank off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012.
The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship from their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and set him and eighteen loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch.
On April 28, 1789, the men aboard the H.M.S. Bounty, a British naval vessel commanded by Captain William Bligh, mounted a legendary mutiny. Having spent several idyllic months on the island of ...
Built in 1960, the Bounty (popularly known as the HMS Bounty) was an enlarged reproduction of the original 1787 Royal Navy sailing tall ship HMS Bounty. Bounty was commissioned by the MGM film studio for the 1962 film “Mutiny on the Bounty.”
The HMS Bounty was a small, three masted, [1] fully rigged, sailing ship. The Bounty became famous when the crew (seamen) mutinied (took over) the ship on 28 April 1789. The captain of the Bounty was named William Bligh.
HMS Bounty sailed from England on 23 December 1787. It was bound for Tahiti in the South Pacific to collect breadfruit saplings for transport to the West Indies. Breadfruit was discovered in Tahiti by botanist Joseph Banks whilst travelling on the Endeavor with James Cook.
Immortalised into movie history in 1962 with Marlon Brando and again in 1984 with Anthony Hopkins, the story of the mutiny on the Bounty has long been a fascinating part of maritime history at the peak of British colonial rule.
On April 4, 1789, the Bounty departed Tahiti with its store of breadfruit saplings. On April 28, near the island of Tonga, Christian and 25 petty officers and seamen seized the ship.
This post will briefly explore the career of the first Bounty replica. The last post explored the history of the original HMAV Bounty of 1787, and the next post will focus on the later 1978 replica.