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    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...
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    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...
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    The complement of HMS Bounty, the Royal Navy ship on which a historic mutiny occurred in the south Pacific on 28 April 1789, comprised 46 men on its departure...
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    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...
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  • The Bounty is a 1984 British epic historical drama film directed by Roger Donaldson. It depicts the voyage and mutiny of HMS Bounty, with Robert Bolt's...
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  • Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, based on the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer...
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    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It dramatizes the mutiny of the HMS Bounty, and is adapted from the novels Mutiny on the Bounty and Men Against the Sea by Charles Nordhoff...
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    should any British ships enter the river. HMS Bounty, after her crew mutinied, was scuttled by the mutineers in Bounty Bay off Pitcairn Island on 23 January...
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    mutiny on HMS Bounty, the First Lord of the Admiralty, John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham, decided to despatch the ship to recover the Bounty, capture the...
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    Pacific Ocean, of which many inhabitants are descendants of mutineers of HMS Bounty. The island is of volcanic origin, with a rugged cliff coastline. Unlike...
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    Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 American Technicolor epic historical drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring...
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    Pitcairn Islands (category Mutiny on the Bounty)
    July 1773. In 1790, nine of the mutineers from the British merchant ship HMS Bounty, along with the native Tahitian men and women who were with them (six...
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    William Bligh (category Mutiny on the Bounty)
    Navy and a colonial administrator. He is best known for the mutiny on HMS Bounty, which occurred in 1789 when the ship was under his command. The reasons...
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  • 1960s and 1970s with bands including the Impacts, Merrell & the Exiles, HMS Bounty, Fankhauser-Cassidy Band, and Mu. In addition, 12 songs recorded by Merrell...
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    Fletcher Christian (category HMS Bounty mutineers)
    sailor who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789, during which he seized command of the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty from Lieutenant William Bligh. In...
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  • Look up bounty or bounties in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bounty or bounties commonly refers to: Bounty (reward), an amount of money or other reward...
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  • The Mutiny on the Bounty was a mutiny on HMS Bounty that occurred in 1789. Mutiny on the Bounty may also refer to: Mutiny on the Bounty (novel), a 1932...
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    Peter Heywood (category HMS Bounty mutineers)
    1772 – 10 February 1831) was a British Royal Navy officer who was on board HMS Bounty during the mutiny of 28 April 1789. He was later captured in Tahiti, tried...
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    from HMS Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian, abducted 18 native Tahitians and settled on Pitcairn Island, afterwards setting fire to the Bounty. Christian's...
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    Pitcairn Island with the Bounty Mutineers. She took part in Ned Young's plot to murder male Polynesians who had travelled on HMS Bounty and killed Tetahiti...
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    narrating the story of the 1789 mutiny on HMS Bounty – e.g. Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) with actor Marlon Brando, The Bounty (1984) with Mel Gibson. A more recent...
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  • William Peckover (category Crew of HMS Bounty)
    1787 - HMAV Bounty 1 Dec 1790 - HMS Antelope 6 Jun 1791 - HMS Sultan 23 Jan 1792 - HMS Antelope 6 Feb 1792 - HMS Ocean 23 May 1798 - HMS Bedford 30 Aug...
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    John Adams (mutineer) (category HMS Bounty mutineers)
    of HMS Bounty and their Tahitian companions settled on the island and set fire to the Bounty. Only the ballast stone remains of the wreck in Bounty Bay...
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    had established a reputation for large and successful replicas such as HMS Bounty in 1960 and Bluenose II in 1963. The ship was inspected and certified...
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    decommissioned in 2017. For the filming of The Bounty, a replica of William Bligh's ship, HMS Bounty was required. The Bounty replica was built by Whangarei Engineering...
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    common ancestors were the nine surviving mutineers from the mutiny on HMS Bounty which occurred in the south Pacific Ocean in 1789. Their descendants also...
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    The Bounty Bible is a Bible that is thought to have been used on HMS Bounty, the ship famed for the Mutiny on the Bounty. In January 1790, nine of the...
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  • Digital 5.1 surround sound. Several scenes were shot on board Bounty II, a replica of HMS Bounty, in St. Petersburg, Florida. The owners of the ship were not...
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    rediscovered by Edward Edwards, captain of HMS Pandora, who was sent in 1790 to capture the mutineers of HMS Bounty. He named the island Ducie in honour of...
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  • claimed that British sovereignty over the islands was unconstitutional: HMS Bounty mutineers, from whom almost all of the current island population is descended...
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