#HMS Bounty

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HMS Bounty seen in a tall ships festival in the Port of Los Angeles in 2008

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find it insane that the terror/erabus expedition and shackleton expedition have so much clout here on tumblr but the hms bounty voyage doesn't. i know none of the adaptations seem that fandomable but there are a lot of them to choose from and the actual event was imo way crazier than any adaptation can capture.

22 y/o upstart with an anxiety disorder mutinies against captain he has a weird psychosocial obsessive bond with who then completes an impossible shackleton-esque journey to save his mens lives. succeeds. majority of the mutineers mutiny again and choose to stay in tahiti while the remaining few take a band of polynesians and go form a colony on a tiny borderline unliveable island in the middle of nowhere.

one of the loyalist survivors then leads a ship to hunt down the mutineers. finds the ones who stayed on tahiti and brings them back to be tried in england but then that ship is dramatically wrecked and several of the mutineers die. few who lived were put on trial and some executed.

while all that is going on, all the men on the remote island are killing each other so the women end up inheriting the place keeping only one male alive and turning the island into a genuinely functioning society with literacy and a schoolhouse and female voting (their descendants are still there today). meanwhile the original captain became governor in australia and got mutinied yet again and imprisoned causing the overthrow of the australian government and the start of the rum rebellion.

and that's just a brief summary leaving out all of the weird stuff...

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The Fleet Museum "The Bounty"

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Filming the sequence when the HMS Bounty crashes into Golden Gate Bay, from Star Trek lV: The One With the Whales The Voyage Home (1986).

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Fabrice Le Hénanff - Capitaine Bligh

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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 the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012.

text source: Wikipedia

images by me, taken at Oostende Voor Anker, Belgium (2011)

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the gathering wind: gregory a. freeman (2013)

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a true story of the sinking of the tall ship bounty in hurricane sandy, the coast guard rescue, and subsequent hearing. i've known about this book since 2020- before i worked with two of the survivors. one was my captain, one my engineer. my caption never spoke of it, my engineer mentioned it in passing when we had safety talks, drills, or if someone brought up some sort of shipboard incident that involved a friend in the industry if it hit particularly close to home.

i'm glad i waited to read it. it's always really difficult reading about modern tall ship wrecks/deaths/etc. when aboard a tall ship- it all just seems a little too real. the community is so small that even if you don't know anyone involved, you know their heart. you know their passion and drive and love of their work. their deep connection and commitment to their ship, and most importantly their devotion to their fellow crew. i know that that devotion would extend both ways if i were ever to meet them. working on tall ships provides a unique set of experiences separate from shoreside realities that only others in the community will ever fully understand.

however...

personally knowing the people you're reading about is different. i know when they prefer to go to bed and when they wake. their preference in condiments, the stories they tell of their family and friends. what makes them laugh, what sends them into a stressed frenzy, the treasures they hold dear and the tales that those objects hold. even though i never knew them outside of our bubble, i know their life and they know mine; if only in the moments we shared at the present.

we share so much as shipmates that it's strange to learn about such a pivotal point in their lives from a book, but after reading i completely understand why.

it's such a gift to be able to get a glimpse into the events that make up my former shipmates without them having to relive the trauma or bear the burden that would have come with my curiosity.

anyway, please read, and as always

don't forget your old shipmates, fally rally rally rally ri-oh.

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Pencil drawing on paper

Calbayog City 2024

I think a lot about those guys on the HMS Bounty. They had been ashore on Tahiti living in paradise with the native Tahitians for several months and then suddenly Captain Bligh tells them it's time to go back to stinky old England.

I would have mutinied too. Damn right!!

I did this drawing this morning. Above is the original sketch and below is the final after I cleaned it up. I like both but the initial drawing had more energy. So it goes.

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

[ltwilliammowett]

In door no. 10 we have a couple today. The US Brig Niagara and HMS Bounty, aren't they cute together?

More about them here:

The Bounty was a British three-master on which one of the most famous mutinies in maritime history took place on 28 April 1789 near Tonga. Since then, the story of the ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ has repeatedly become the subject of novels, non-fiction books, films, theatre plays and radio plays.

The merchant ship, built in Hull in 1784 and originally used as a coal freighter under the name Bethia, was purchased by the British Admiralty for an expedition to the South Seas. After extensive modifications, it set off on a voyage to Tahiti in 1787 under the command of Lieutenant William Bligh of Spithead to bring cuttings of the breadfruit tree from there to the Antilles. After their exploits, the mutineers settled on the remote island of Pitcairn. Off its coast, they set fire to the Bounty.

The Bounty here, however, was a replica from the 18th century built in 1960 and 1961. It was built especially for the film Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). The ship was sometimes referred to as HMS Bounty II or variants thereof to distinguish it from the original, but neither the abbreviation HMS, which is reserved for British naval vessels, nor the numbers were part of the ship's name. After being used in several other films, she was used for charter and adventure trips with passengers and as a museum ship.

Unfortunately, she sank off Cape Hatteras during Hurricane Sandy on 29 October 2012 with the loss of two crew members.

The U.S. Brig Niagara, otherwise known as Flagship Niagara. This version here of ‘the Brig’ is a replica reproduction of Oliver Hazard Perry's relief flagship during the American victory at the Battle of Lake Erie on 10 September, 1813. All iterations of this ship were constructed within the sheltered natural harbour of Presque Isle Bay in Erie, Pennsylvania including this version which began construction in 1988. Her first sailing season commenced in 1992 and has been sailing nearly continuously since.

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Haunted FIlming Locations Countdown #10 & 9: Mountain View Mausoleum & The Ambassador Hotel

I'm kicking off a series of videos designed to give a quick overview of my favorite haunted filming locations around LA! Enjoy the first two entries on my list - Mountain View Mausoleum & The Ambassador Hotel!

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English Captain William Bligh and 18 others were set adrift from HMS Bounty 7 weeks before, finally reaching Timor in the East Indies after travelling 4,000 miles (6,500 km) in the ship's open launch. June 14, 1789.

Subscriber Content Add content here that will only be visible to your subscribers. Payment Image: Fletcher Christian and the mutineers set Captain William Bligh and 18 others adrift, depicted in a 1790 aquatint by Robert Dodd. (Public Domain) On this day in history, June 14, 1789, English Captain William Bligh and 18 others set adrift from the HMS Bounty seven weeks before, finally reaching…