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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]
In November 1790, the Admiralty despatched the frigate HMS Pandora, under Captain Edward Edwards, to capture the mutineers and return them to England to stand trial. [157] Pandora arrived at Tahiti on 23 March 1791 and, within a few days, all fourteen surviving Bounty men had either surrendered or been captured. [158]
HMS PANDORA : In Pursuit of the Bounty 56 min The story of the Royal Navy frigate, HMS Pandora, sent to the Pacific in 1790 to capture Fletcher Christian and his band of HMS Bounty mutineers. Sir David Attenborough narrates the discovery of the largely intact wreck on the outer Barrier Reef and its recovery by the Queensland Museum .
The movie was partly financed by distributors Stanley Crick and Herbert Finlay in association with J.D. Williams [9] and was described as "probably the most costly production yet made in Australia." [10] Māori actors played the Tahitians who greeted crew members of the Bounty. During shooting the unit came across a real life HMS Pandora. [11]
HMS Pandora was sent out by the Admiralty in November 1790 in pursuit of Bounty, to capture the mutineers and bring them back to Britain to face a court martial. She arrived in March 1791 and captured fourteen men within two weeks; they were locked away in a makeshift wooden prison on Pandora ' s quarterdeck. The men called their cell "Pandora ...
His naval career after he was commissioned included service in the following ships, before being appointed to Pandora: HMS Nassau, a 64-gun third rate, as fourth lieutenant; HMS Lowestoffe, a 32-gun fifth rate, as second lieutenant; HMS Zephyr, a 14-gun sloop, as first lieutenant, under Captain J. Inglis; HMS Ferret, a 14-gun sloop, as first ...
HMS Pandora (1780) was the French 14-gun brig Pandour, launched in 1780, that the British captured in 1795 and renamed HMS Pandora; she foundered in the North Sea in 1797. HMS Pandora (1806), an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1806 and wrecked in 1811 off the Skaw with the loss 27 men to exposure. [1]
Films set in 1790 (3 P) Films set in 1791 (3 P) Films set in 1792 (9 P) Films set in 1793 (12 P) ... Films about HMS Bounty (7 P, 3 F) F. French Revolution films (5 C ...