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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 ...
Bounty was an enlarged reconstruction of the original 1787 Royal Navy sailing ship HMS Bounty, built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in 1960.She sank off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012.
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 .
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]
Scientists aboard a research ship in 1981 discover the wreck of the Goliath lying upright in 1,000 feet (305 m) of water, [3] and divers are sent down to investigate the wreck. Oceanographer Peter Cabot ( Mark Harmon ) hears systematic banging and music coming from the ship [ 4 ] and is shocked to see the face of a beautiful young woman ( Emma ...
Pages in category "Films about HMS Bounty" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... (1935 film) Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)
The Finest Hours is a 2016 American disaster thriller film [7] [8] directed by Craig Gillespie and produced by Walt Disney Pictures.The screenplay, written by Eric Johnson, Scott Silver, and Paul Tamasy, is based on The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman. [9]
Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 American historical adventure drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [3] It dramatizes the mutiny of HMS Bounty , and is adapted from the novels Mutiny on the Bounty and Men Against the Sea by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall . [ 4 ]