Ship Details

Rig

HM Ship/Armed Vessel, ex Bethia

Built

1784

Tonnage

215

Demise

Burned by Mutineers 23/1/1790 off Pitcairn Island

Description

"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bounty";
HMS Bounty, also known as HM Armed Vessel Bounty, was a small merchant vessel purchased by the Royal Navy for a botanical mission. The ship was sent to the Pacific Ocean under the command of William Bligh to acquire breadfruit plants and transport them to British possessions in the West Indies. That mission was never completed due to a mutiny led by Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian. This incident is now popularly known as the Mutiny on the Bounty.[1] The ship was later burned on Pitcairn Island by the mutineers. The remains of the Bounty were rediscovered in 1957 by an American adventurer and various parts of it have been salvaged since then.
Bounty was originally known as collier Bethia, built in 1784 at the Blaydes shipyard in Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, England. The vessel was purchased by the Royal Navy for £1,950 on 23 May 1787, refit, and renamed Bounty.[2] The ship was relatively small at 215 tons, but had three masts and was full-rigged. After conversion for the breadfruit expedition, she was equipped with four 4-pounder (1.8 kg)[5] cannon and ten swivel guns.

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