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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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  • film directed by Roger Donaldson. It depicts the voyage and mutiny of HMS Bounty, with Robert Bolt's screenplay adapting the 1972 book Captain Bligh and...
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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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    ship they will sail on, and the press gang leader informs him that it is HMS Bounty. Upon inquiring as to who the captain is, another man is told the captain...
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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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)
    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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    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 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    is named after the Bounty Islands near the Eastern end of the trough. The islands, in turn, are named after HMS Bounty. The Bounty Trough is located to...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Pitcairn was settled again in 1790 by a group of British mutineers on HMS Bounty and Tahitians. Adamstown is named for the last surviving mutineer, John...
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  • Charles Churchill (mutineer) (category HMS Bounty mutineers)
    Charles Churchill (1759–1790) was the master at arms on board HMAV Bounty during Lieutenant William Bligh's voyage to Tahiti to transplant breadfruit to...
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