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Due to cash flow problems all the crew's contracts were terminated and volunteers kept a watch over Bounty at its dock at Fall River Heritage State Park. On 15 March 2001, the ship was sold to the HMS Bounty Foundation. In 2005, while moored in St. Petersburg, Bounty was the shooting location of the "pornographic action-adventure" film Pirates.
The ship was designed to externally conform to the original Bounty. [5] The replica is 40.5 metres (133 ft) in length overall, with a beam of 8.5 metres (28 ft) and a draught of 3.8 metres (12 ft). [6] To reflect the international legacy of the Mutiny on the Bounty, materials for the ship were sourced from across the British Commonwealth. [5]
The film centers on the sinking of an aged ocean liner in the Pacific Ocean following an explosion in its boiler room. The ship used in the film was the condemned French luxury liner SS Ile de France , which played a major role in rescue operations during the 1956 Andrea Doria disaster.
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 .
Vice-Admiral William Bligh FRS (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was a British officer in the Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. He is best known for the mutiny on HMS Bounty, which occurred in 1789 when the ship was under his command.
The court of inquiry [5] of Commanding Lieutenant William Bligh for the loss of HMS Bounty to mutineers begins. Via flashbacks, Bounty sets out from Portsmouth, England on 23 December 1787, on an expedition to Tahiti to gather breadfruit pods for transplantation in the Caribbean, Bligh electing to sail the ship west round the tip of South America to use the expedition to fulfill an ambition to ...
The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship from their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and set him and eighteen loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch. The reasons behind the mutiny are ...
Lily was eventually acquired by the film production company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer who had her rebuilt by the Wilmington Boat Works in Wilmington, California in 1934 [10] to resemble the three-masted full-rigged ship Bounty [11] [12] in Mutiny on the Bounty. [13] For film shoots at the original locations, Lily/Bounty sailed to Tahiti and back ...