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Admiralty Plan of the Bounty Plan of the lower decks of the Bounty Plan of the lower decks of the Bounty Plan and section of the Bounty Armed Transport showing the manner of fitting and stowing the pots for receiving the bread-fruit plants, from William Bligh's 1792 account of the voyage and mutiny, entitled A Voyage to the South Sea, available from Project Gutenberg.
HMS Hermione was the lead ship of a six-ship class of frigates designed by Edward Hunt and termed the Hermione class. [a] She was 129 ft 0 in (39.3 m) long with a 106 ft 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (32.6 m) keel, a beam of 35 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (10.8 m), a draught of 9 ft 2 in (2.8 m), and a hold depth of 12 ft 8 in (3.9 m).
Mutiny on the Bounty (2 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Royal Navy mutinies" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
Quarterdeck: 2 × 6 pdrs. HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine -class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in May 1779. [1] The vessel is best known for its role in hunting down the Bounty mutineers in 1790, which remains one of the best-known stories in the history of seafaring. [2] Pandora was partially successful by capturing 14 of ...
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.
Sail plan. Full-rigged ship, sail area 10,000 sq ft (929 m 2) Crew. 12–14. 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.
All aft-facing staterooms are 2-story "loft" suites. All interior staterooms feature a floor-to-ceiling, 80-inch high-definition TV screen showing live views from the outside of the ship, which Royal Caribbean calls a "Virtual Balcony". On average, staterooms on the Quantum class are 9 percent larger than those on the preceding Oasis class. [6]
Horology & carpentry. John Harrison (3 April [O.S. 24 March] 1693 – 24 March 1776) was an English carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of how to calculate longitude while at sea. Harrison's solution revolutionized navigation and greatly increased the safety of long ...