H.M.S. BOUNTY
L=930mm / H=705mm / skala:1:48
A British merchant ship that was rigged as a frigate and equipped for
exploration journeys. In April 1789 she left for Thaiti in the South Sea.
On her way home some of the crew raised a mutiny, close to the Tonga Islands.
Captain William Bligh and eighteen loyal members of the crew were forced into
one of the three small lifeboats by the mutineers and cast adrift. This craft equipped
with a large sail and with four men rowing at the same time, covered 3600 miles in 43 days, until they
reached Timor in the Portuguese East India.
Some of the mutinees succeeded to escape punishment by settling down on
the distant island Pitcairn. Their colony was discovered first in 1808.
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