the HMS Bounty (His Majesty's Ship Bounty) was a unit of the British Royal Navy, which entered into history because of the famous mutiny of part of his crew April 28, 1789.
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Dimensions (Length): 53
BOAT TYPE: Frigate
LAUNCH YEAR: 1787
CONSTRUCTION COUNTRY: England
BACKGROUND: The expedition of the Bounty, England party December 23, 1787 with a crew of 46 men, was designed to discover and harvest in Tahiti a botanical curiosity, breadfruit order to implement the Caribbean to cultivate and feed the slaves of the large plantations. Captain William Bligh, appointed 22 years boatswain under the command of the famous James Cook, then won his second commandment, The Bounty, and committed his second, Fletcher Christian, a distant cousin. The trip lasts eight months in difficult conditions. Arrived in Tahiti October 26, 1788, Bligh and his crew are forced to extend their stay on the island: the harvest breadfruit trees will last six months. During this step wonderful and relaxing Tahitian, sailors participating in festivals and in village life, and many of them find a mate (or same number) among the local population. Six months later, when the Bounty left Tahiti, its nonchalant tropical life, its vahines, luxury, sailors return to their confined space aboard Bligh restores a more strict and humiliating discipline. The atmosphere became more and more tense between Bligh and Fletcher Christian. 24 days after the Bounty had left Tahiti, Fletcher Christian, helped by 8 crewmen, seized the ship in the early morning of April 28, 1789. The captain and 18 crew members were thrown into a boat with some food . No card, Bligh then manages to forward it to the boat a journey of almost 7000 km to Timor in Indonesia, before finally being rescued and returned to England in March 1790. Fletcher Christian and some mutineers landed on Pitcairn island, chosen because it is listed incorrectly on maritime maps of the time, and burn the ship on January 23 1790. They start drinking and worse still treat Tahitians massacring local warriors and considering the women as properties that the mutineers can be exchanged at will. After various adventures, in 1793, the Tahitians get bored and kill Fletcher Christian and his companions with the ax. The fate of the mutineers, sought by the Royal Navy, had remained unknown until a whaler, Topaz, stops on the island to take water in September 1808. One mutineer John Adams is still alive. He lives with ten women and their children. As for the mutineers remained in Tahiti, they are captured in 1791 by a British vessel came looking for them, the Pandora. Some die in the ship's sinking. The shipwreck survivors have yet to survive the return is done in deplorable conditions. The trial in Britain is resounding. Bligh returned the first, has already published his version of events and public opinion is largely favorable. The evidence is piling up, more or less confused regarding the precise role of each in the mutiny. Some will escape the gallows by the king's clemency. Bligh pursue a successful career in the Navy and eventually vice admiral in 1814 before dying in 1817. The last mutinous Bounty who survived the wrath of the Tahitians, Adams, will be found in 1814 - 26 years after the mutiny! - on Pitcairn Island, where "forgotten" by the Navy, he is dead and buried in 1829. Luis Marden discovered the wreck of the Bounty off Pitcairn Island in January 1957. Some parts of the ship were then extracted, one of the anchors. AND TODAY ? Fletcher Christian and the mutineers burned the Bounty on January 23, 1790. Luis Marden discovered the wreck of the Bounty off Pitcairn Island in January 1957. Some parts of the ship were then extracted, one of the anchors. A replica of the Bounty is controlled in 1961 by Metro Goldwyn Mayer for the needs of the film Mutiny on the "Bounty", released in 1962. The Bounty was built in Lunenburg as he was in the eighteenth century, from sketches found in the Admiralty archives. Its dimensions are increased by one third in order to adapt the cameras to 70 mm then used. The dark replica finally off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy, October 29, 2012.
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