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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.
Apr 27, 2021 · 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 ...
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 tall ship was often referred to as HMS Bounty, but was not entitled to the use of the prefix "HMS" as she was not commissioned into the Royal Navy.
Jul 29, 2022 · 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.”
Jan 15, 2021 · 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.
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.
Jul 10, 2013 · Discover Wreck of HMS Bounty in Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands: The watery grave of Captain Bligh's famous ship.
Aug 30, 2023 · 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 28, 1789, crewmembers of the British trade ship Bounty mutinied against their captain while sailing in the remote South Pacific. The mutiny has been chronicled in books, theatrical productions, and movies. The Bounty had left England almost two years earlier.
Bounty, English armed transport ship remembered for the mutiny of her crew on April 28, 1789, while she was under the command of Capt. William Bligh (q.v.). See also Christian, Fletcher .
