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In 1787 the HMS
Bounty was purchased
by the Admiralty and
recommissioned to
sail halfway around
the world to Tahiti
to collect sapling
breadfuit trees and
transport them to the
West Indies. Owners
of the burgeoning
British plantations
there needed a cheap
source of food for
the workers.
To lead mission on
the HMS Bounty, the
Admiralty picked 33
year old Lt. William
Bligh. After arriving
in Tahiti, 10 months
after leaving
England, Bligh and
the crew set about
collecting the more
than 1,000 breadfruit
plants they were to
take to the
Caribbean. They spent
five months in
Tahiti, during which
time Bligh allowed
many of the crew to
live ashore. Without
the discipline and
rigid schedules of
the sea, the men went
native. When time
came to return to
England, some were
already contemplating
staying on the
island.
Two weeks out of
Tahiti, miserable
with having left the
Tahitian wife he took
while there, First
Mate Fletcher
Christian took the
ship. Of the 44 men
on board, 31 sided
with Bligh. Of the
31, 18 went over the
side to be set adrift
in the longboat with
Bligh. The mutineers
in the HMS Bounty
then set off for
Tahiti, where they
put the rest of the
sailors loyal to
Bligh ashore, picked
up their Tahitian
wives, girlfriends
and several Tahitian
men, and set off to
hide forever from the
long arm of the
British law.
Bligh navigated the
longboat 3,600 miles
to safety in 41 days
using only a sextant
and a pocket watch.
Only one man died --
stoned to death by
angry natives on the
first island they
tried to land on. The
voyage was a feat of
navigation that is
unparalleled to this
day. The mutineers
eventually settled on
Pitcairn Island, an
isolated rock in the
South Pacific that
was misplaced on
British charts. They
burned the ship in
Bounty Bay and
weren't found for 25
years.
After all but one of
the mutineers had
been killed by either
each other or the
Tahitian men they
brought with them,
the last one,
Alexander Smith,
began rebuilding a
society on the island
based on the ship's
bible. Today their
descendants still
live there in a
moralistic society
that still only sees
one ship every six
months.
32" long x 10" Wide x
23" High (1:58 scale)
Requires hundreds of
hours to build from
scratch (not from a
model kit) by our
master artisans.
Built with rare, high
quality woods such as
walnut, cherry,
rosewood, birch and
maple.
Handpainted the
colors of the actual
HMS Bounty
The model rests
perfectly on a large
wood base between
four metal arched
dolphins.
Masterfully stitched
canvas sails.
No plastic fittings
(metal anchors and
machine turned brass
cannons)
Amazing deck detail.
To build this ship,
extensive research
was done using
various sources such
as museums, drawings,
copies of original
plans and photos of
the actual ship.
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Product Details:
NAME: HMS Bounty - Museum Quality Replica Ship
TYPE: Reproduction
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