HMS Bounty

HMS Bounty
Replica of Bounty, built in 1960
History
Great Britain
NameBethia
OwnerPrivate merchant service
BuilderReputedly Blaydes Yard, Kingston-upon-Hull, England
Launched1784
In service1784–1787
FateSold to the Royal Navy, 23 May 1787
Royal Navy EnsignGreat Britain
NameBounty
Costpurchased for £1,950
Acquired23 May 1787
Commissioned16 August 1787
In service1787–1790
FateBurned by mutineers, 23 January 1790
General characteristics
Tons burthen2202694 (bm)
Length90 ft 10 in (27.7 m)
Beam24 ft 4 in (7.4 m)
Depth of hold11 ft 4 in (3.5 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement44 officers and men
Armament
Admiralty Plan of the Bounty
Plan of the lower decks of the Bounty
Plan of the lower decks of the Bounty
Plan and section of the Bounty Armed Transport showing the manner of fitting and stowing the pots for receiving the bread-fruit plants, from William Bligh's 1792 account of the voyage and mutiny, entitled A Voyage to the South Sea, available from Project Gutenberg.

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. That mission was never completed owing to a 1789 mutiny led by acting lieutenant Fletcher Christian, an incident now popularly known as the Mutiny on the Bounty.[1] The mutineers later burned Bounty while she was moored at Pitcairn Island in the Southern Pacific Ocean in 1790. An American adventurer helped land several remains of Bounty in 1957.

  1. ^ Knight, C. (1936). Carr Laughton, Leonard George; Anderson, Roger Charles; Perrin, William Gordon (eds.). "HM Armed Vessel Bounty". The Mariner's Mirror. 22 (2). Society for Nautical Research: 183–199. doi:10.1080/00253359.1936.10657185. Archived from the original on 28 April 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2009.