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	Mutiny on the Bounty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Pandora, under the command of Captain Edward Edwards, was dispatched November 7, 1790 to search for Bounty and the mutineers.
		The 1935 release of Mutiny on the Bounty on IMDB
		The 1962 release of Mutiny on the Bounty on IMDB
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Bounty (2816 words)

	HMS Bounty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		HMS Bounty or rather, His Majesty's Armed Vessel (HMAV) Bounty was, before her purchase on May 26, 1787 by the British Royal Navy and renaming, the collier Bethia, a coal -carrying merchant ship.
		HMS Bounty This tall ship was built for the 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty.
		Bounty Beyond the Voyage Julie Pearson's book on the Bounty, produced for the bi-centenary of the mutiny in 1989, is again available.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-HMS_Bounty.html (668 words)

	Mutiny on the HMS Bounty: Bligh, Christian, Pitcairn, Norfolk
		Reaction to Mutiny on the Bounty & The Bounty Mutiny
		The Bibliography of HMS Bounty, William Bligh and Pitcairn Island
		HMS Pandora is best known as the frigate which the British Admiralty sent to the South Pacific to bring to justice the men who commandeered the Bounty.
	www.lareau.org /bounty.html (1889 words)

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		HMS (in actuality -- HMAV -- His Majesty's Armed Vessel) Bounty was a collier (a coal-carrying merchant ship) named Bethia until she was purchased by the Royal Navy of the UK on May 26, 1787.
		Lieutenant William Bligh, 33-year-old former sailing master of HMS Resolution, was appointed commanding officer on August 16.
		On December 23, Bounty sailed from Spithead for Tahiti.
	www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/h/hm/hms_bounty.html (682 words)

	HMS Bounty info sheet
		She was renamed HMS Bounty to honour the patronage of the King.
		HMS Bounty reached Pitcairn's Island on 15 January 1790 and her crew began to build a settlement once it was clear that the land was inhabitable.
		HMS Pandora reached Matavai Bay on 23 March 1791 and fourteen of the sixteen mutineers there were arrested (the other two had been killed earlier).
	www.royalnavalmuseum.org /info_sheets_bounty.htm (1565 words)

	HMS BOUNTY MISSION TO TAHITI FOR BREADFRUIT CAPTAIN WILLIAM BLIGH AND FLETCHER CHRISTIAN MUTINY AND SETTLING ON ...
		HMS Bounty sailed from Spithead, England on December 23, 1787 with Captain William Bligh and a crew of 45 men bound for Tahiti.
		When HMS Bounty finally left Tahiti on April 6, 1789 there were 1015 breadfruit plants onboard, and a very unhappy crew.
		The Log of the Bounty is in the British National Maritime Museum, and the Bounty’s chronometer (K2) is in the Royal Observatory, also in Greenwich, England.
	www.solarnavigator.net /history/hms_bounty.htm (3231 words)

	HMS Bounty - Mutiny on the Bounty
		HMS Bounty is one of the most famous (perhaps infamous) ships in the history of maritime adventures.
		The original HMS Bounty was purchased by the Royal Navy in May 1787, having previously been a merchant ship used for transporting coal.
		HMS Bounty was burned in what is now known as Bounty Bay.
	www.airfixmodels.co.uk /hms-bounty.shtml (392 words)

	ipedia.com: Mutiny on the Bounty (history) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Mutiny on the Bounty was a historical event in the late 18 th century, most widely known through fiction, of an officer and part of the crew of a British Royal Navy ship rebelling against their co...
		HMS Bounty or rather, His Majesty's Armed Vessel (HMAV) Bounty was, before her purchase on May 26, 1787 by the British Royal Navy and renaming, the collier Bethia, a coal-carrying merchant ship.
		Lieutenant William Bligh, 33-year-old former sailing master of HMS Resolution, was appointed commanding officer of HMAV Bounty on 1787 August 16.
	www.ipedia.com /mutiny_on_the_bounty__history_.html (1846 words)

	HMS Bounty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Until she was chosen for the mission which made her famous, HMS Bounty was a small and unimportant merchantman of only 220 tons with a length from stem to stern of 90 feet and a beam of 24.
		Built privately and launched as the Bethia, she was sold to the Royal Navy by none other than the uncle of her future captain, and re-named HMS Bounty when first she was commissioned.
		So laden, Bounty left the islands on 27 April, and as the mutiny took place when she was barely one day out, the facts make a nonsense of the widely-believed myth that it was sparked off by men driven mad by thirst.
	www.btinternet.com /~tony.angell/mhistory/bountyl.htm (1933 words)

	Tall Ship Celebration - 2003 - Bay City, Michigan - HMS Bounty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bounty has successfully operated as a sail training vessel for many years.
		Due to her commitment to sail training and preserving the art of square rigged sailing, the US Navy selected Bounty to help prepare and teach officers and crew to sail the USS Constitution for the first time in more than 100 years.
		During this period of time the Bounty appeared to have vanished from the earth-and thus began the fantastic series of historic events, which have excited the romantic and adventurous for well over two Centuries.
	www.tallshipcelebration.com /hmsbounty.html (286 words)

	Editorial: HMS Bounty brings maritime history to tourists and locals
		And as a parting gift for the Bounty, local model-ship builders are set to collaborate to build a new jib boom for the vessel, according to Tom Cocchiaro, a member of the Piscataqua Maritime Commission.
		The Bounty is a replica of the 1787 Royal Navy vessel aboard which, in 1789, Fletcher Christian and crew overthrew Capt. William Bligh in arguably the most famous mutiny of all time.
		It is encouraging that the city of Portsmouth has decided to welcome the Bounty with open arms, and just as encouraging is the Bounty's decision to make one of her many stops in Portsmouth.
	www.seacoastonline.com /1999news/7_13_e1.htm (325 words)

	HMS Bounty (1787) - Museum Quality Model Ship - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		HMS Bounty set sail from Portsmouth on December 23, 1787 under the command of Lieutenant Bligh and arrived in Tahiti on October 26, 1788.
		The HMS Bounty is accurately painted with at least two coats of paint.
		The HMS Bounty comes with a certificate authenticating the master who made it, it's country of origin, how the motor boat was made, and more.
	www.ucanpress.com /product.asp?intProdID=516&pid=&cid= (731 words)

	Reclaiming the Bounty
		Bounty, or Bethia as she was first named, was built as a merchant ship for Benjamin Blaydes of Kingston-upon-Hull in 1782.
		We know from the diary of James Morrison (bosun's mate aboard Bounty), that the crew collected curios in Tahiti, and the gorget and cowrie may be such mementos or they may have belonged to one of the Polynesians brought to Pitcairn aboard Bounty.
		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 from the ship, providing a baseline of what was available at the inception of the settlement.
	www.he.net /~archaeol/9905/etc/bounty.html (4351 words)

	HMS Bounty (XL)
		On December 24th of 1787, the three-masted BOUNTY set sail for Cape Horn with her crew of 44 men under the command of Captain Bligh.
		Her orders were to call at the Island of Tahiti, bad as many breadfruit trees as she could carry and then transport them to the West Indies where they were to be cultivated in large plantations as a supply of food for the slaves.
		The mutinous crew of the BOUNTY found a safe hiding place on the Island of Pitcaim and there they unloaded the cargo before setting fire to the BOUNTY.
	www.schiffsmodelle.at /xbounty.html (498 words)

	NC Museum of History: What's Going On - Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The original HMS Bounty, led in 1787 by Capt. William Bligh, was commissioned to sail halfway around the world, from England to Tahiti, to collect sapling breadfruit trees and transport them to the West Indies.
		The HMS Bounty, a magnificent three-masted sailing vessel, was rebuilt specifically for “Mutiny on the Bounty.” From the laying of its keel in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in 1960, the ship has attracted attention typical of a movie star.
		The re-created HMS Bounty is true to the original, from rope davits to 10,000 square feet of canvas on the square-rigged masts.
	www.ncmuseumofhistory.org /wgo/press_06072005.html (754 words)

	Local: Relive the past aboard HMS Bounty
		Visitors will be able to tour the Bounty's deck, hear of her crew's mishaps and infamous uprising, and experience the ship's living history.
		Many of the Bounty's modern crew, who give tours and historical tidbits, live aboard the ship year-round, though with a few more amenities than their predecessors.
		The Bounty's voyage is a program of the Portsmouth-based Piscataqua Maritime Commission, a group dedicated to preserving the maritime heritage of Piscataqua River communities by providing educational opportunities and hosting historical military and civilian vessels.
	www.seacoastonline.com /1999news/6_27c.htm (954 words)

	JS Online: Replica of HMS Bounty bringing history to festival
		A replica of the HMS Bounty, built for the 1962 film "Mutiny on the Bounty," will rest lakeside in Port Washington for public tours over the weekend.
		The 180-foot-long, square-rigged ship was built for the 1962 movie "Mutiny on the Bounty." MGM Studios spent $650,000 to construct the ship, and at the time, it was the most expensive movie prop ever made, Kristine Gross, the ship's spokeswoman, said Wednesday.
		The mission of the original Bounty was to take a crew of 45 from England to Tahiti, where they were to collect breadfruit plants, and to transplant the plants in the West Indies as inexpensive food for slaves.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/gen/jul03/157278.asp?format=print (630 words)

	BBC - Cumbria - AskAway-- HMS Bounty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The original Bounty was stripped and burned by the mutineers shortly after they escaped to Pitcairn Island in order for them to avoid being detected by British ships out searching for them.
		She was refitted (ie masts shortened) at Deptford Yard, and on June 8, 1787 she was renamed the Bounty for her breadfruit expedition with Bligh.
		The plan of HMS Bounty is on display at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.
	www.bbc.co.uk /cumbria/features/askaway/people/fletcher_christian.shtml (936 words)

	Find A Grave - Mutiny on the HMS Bounty
		Raised in a London poorhouse, he joined the crew of the HMS Bounty in 1787 under the alias Alexander Smith, apparently because of trouble with the law.
		In 1762, at the age of seven, he was made to spend a year aboard the warship HMS Monmouth as a Captain's servant, a traumatic experience that had lasting...
		Described as "one of the quietest fellows in nature", Nelson's principal duty on the Bounty was to care for the 600 breadfruit plants Bligh was transporting from Tahiti to the West Indies.
	www.findagrave.com /php/famous.php?page=pr&FSctf=230 (502 words)

	Genesis Publications: The Hall of Fame: The Log of HMS Bounty
		After receiving permission to publish the hand-written account of the voyage of the Bounty from the manuscript held in The Public Record Office in London, the embryonic Genesis got a further boost when the late Lord Mountbatten agreed to write the Foreword.
		It is vividly documented in The Voyage of the Bounty Launch by John Fryer, the Master of the Bounty.
		The Log of HMS Bounty is further referred to in George Harrison's Foreword to I Me Mine.
	www.genesis-publications.com /fame/bounty.html (389 words)

	Model Ships - Mauritius -- HMS Bounty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		HMS Bounty was an English vessel sent out from Spithead, England in 1787 to Tahiti, under William Blight to collect plants for the bread fruit tree to be transplanted in the West Indian colonies.
		On the return in 1789, Blight's crew mutinied under his harsh treatment, turning him and the few who served loyal to him adrift in the ship's launch.
		The mutineers took the HMS Bounty to the isolated site at Pitcairn Island and, after a violent start and burning of the ship, established a settlement that still exists.
	www.historicship.com /hmsbounty.html (105 words)

	HMS Bounty back in town between gigs: 8/ 12/ 2005
		In February 2001, the Bounty was purchased by the HMS Bounty Organization LLC of Oakdale, N.Y. The organization is dedicated to keeping the ship sailing and using it as a vehicle for teaching the nearly lost art of square-rigged sailing and seamanship.
		The Bounty also will be used this summer in a Lone Wolf Production Group documentary on the pirate Blackbeard.
		It was used in 2003 for a documentary on Capt. Bligh for the History Channel, and "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie," which was released in November 2004.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/08-05/08-12-05/a01lo411.htm (343 words)

	HMS Bounty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The year is 1787 and under King George III, England was in the midst of a great age for maritime exploration led by Captain James Cook under whom served the now infamous Captain Bligh.
		The "Mutiny of the Bounty" saga, set in the South Seas, has been made famous through film and books.
		Sir John, 1764-1848, was the British Admiralty's historian of the mutiny.
	www.seacraftclassics.com /store/military_bounty.html (95 words)

	HMS Bounty model ship: White Sails
		The HMS Bounty, originally the merchant ship Bethia, was launched in 1780.
		Of all the many mutinies at sea, that which took place on the HMS Bounty on 28 April 1789 is probably the most famous.
		It is not a true replica, as it is made with a steel hull, but it attracts the eye of many everywhere it is moored.
	www.white-sails.com.au /bounty.htm (163 words)

	Replica of HMS Bounty Come to South Haven
		The MGM studios commissioned the Bounty's construction in 1960 for Mutiny on the Bounty with Marlon Brando.
		The Tall Ship Bounty Organization LLC is dedicated to keeping the ship sailing and using her as a vehicle for teaching the nearly lost arts of square rigged sailing and seamanship.
		Since then, the Bounty has logged thousands of miles on the high seas and shared the adventure of tall ship sailing with countless trainees and visitors.
	www.schoonerman.com /bounty.html (288 words)

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