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The ship was also featured in an episode of Flipper titled "Flipper and the Bounty", which aired 11 December 1965. The ship was featured in the 1983 film Yellowbeard, a comedy about pirates starring Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle and many other comedic stars, including Marty Feldman in his final role before suffering a heart attack during production.
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 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 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)
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 ...
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 ...