HMS Bounty
Frae Wikipedia
Replica o Bounty, biggit in 1960
|
|
| History | |
|---|---|
 Great Breetain |
|
| 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 |
| History | |
 Ryal Navy |
|
| 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 |
| Airmament: |
|
HMS Bounty, an aa kent as HM Armed Vessel Bounty, 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 2009-01-23.
