HMS Bounty
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![]() Replica o Bounty, biggit in 1960
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Name: | Bethia |
Ainer: | Private merchant service |
Bigger: | Blaydes shipyard, Kingston-upon-Hull, Ingland |
Launched: | 1784 |
In service: | 1784–87 |
Fate: | sauld tae the Ryal Navy, 23 Mey 1787 |
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Name: | Bounty |
Cost: | purchased for £1,950 |
Acquired: | 23 Mey 1787 |
Commissioned: | 16 August 1787 |
In service: | 1787–90 |
Fate: | Burned by mutineers, 23 January 1790 |
General chairacteristics | |
Cless an teep: | Armed Vessel |
Tons burthen: | 220 26⁄94 |
Lenth: | 90 ft 10 in (27.69 m) |
Beam: | 24 ft 4 in (7.42 m) |
Depth o hauld: | 11 ft 4 in (3.45 m) |
Propulsion: | Sails |
Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
Complement: | 44 officers an men |
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HMS Bounty, kent as HM Armed Vessel Bounty an aw, wis a smaa merchant vessel purchased bi the Royal Navy for a botanical mission. The ship, unner the command o William Bligh, wis sent tae the Paceefic Ocean tae acquire breadfruit plants an transport them tae Breetish possessions in the Wast Indies. That mission wis never completit, due tae a mutiny led bi the actin Master, Fletcher Christian. This wis the famous Mutiny on the Bounty.[1]
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ C. Knight, "HM Armed Vessel Bounty," Mariner's Mirror 22 (1936). Retrieved 23 Januar 2009.
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