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.

Jul 10, 2013 · In 1957, photographer and explorer Luis Marden made the extraordinary discovery of the remains of the Bounty, still visible in shallow water off the shores of Pitcairn, more or less undisturbed...

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. The reasons behind the mutiny are ...

Aug 30, 2023 · With the anniversary of the launch of the HMS Bounty fast approaching on the 3rd of September, volunteer Katie McAvelia dives into the story of the famous mutiny, taking us all the way from the Solent to the South Pacific.

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 HMS Bounty, burned by the mutineers, its wreck exposed to the full ocean swell and scavenged by later generations, has nonetheless yielded valuable information about what the mutineers took...

Jan 15, 2021 · The subject of countless books and films, the mutiny that took place aboard HMS Bounty on 28 April 1789 is one of the most famous events of nautical history. The cast of characters are well known: chiefly William Bligh, the cruel ship’s captain who fell foul of a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, the sensitive master’s mate.

Apr 27, 2021 · When the H.M.S. Bounty set sail from England in November 1787, its captain and crew could never have anticipated that their peaceful voyage would end with court-martials, marooned mutineers,...

Feb 9, 2010 · Three weeks into a journey from Tahiti to the West Indies, the HMS Bounty is seized in a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, the master’s mate. Captain William Bligh and 18 of his loyal...

Jan 13, 2023 · One of the cannons from the famous HMS Bounty on display on Pitcairn Island (Picture: Royal Navy). Bligh was ejected on a lifeboat with a handful of loyalists and, in an incredible feat of navigation and perseverance, sailed 3,600 miles in 47 days, finally reaching safety at Timor on 14 June 1789.