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Shaffer's Maritime Museum

HMS Bounty

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·        1787 British  armed Merchantman

·        4 Guns and 8 swivels with a crew of 46

·        Launched in 1784 as a merchantman named Bethia, she was purchased by the  Royal Navy

·        She was purchased to go to Tahiti and bring back breadfruit plants

·        The HMS Bounty never completed the mission

·        Best known as Captain William Bligh’s ship from Mutiny on the Bounty

·        She was scuttled by the mutineers after deposing Bligh

·        Bligh and 17 men sailed the open longboat (depicted on the center deck) over 3600 miles from Tofoa (west of Tahiti) to Coupang on Timor in the East Indies.

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