page_title: Mutiny on the Bounty
section_title: The ship
hierarchical_section_title: Mutiny on the Bounty / The ship
caption_attribution_description: HMAV Bounty replica at the Australian National Mairitme Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia. (This may be the Bounty III which is now in Hong Kong. Bounty III was launched in 1979)
context_page_description: The Mutiny on the Bounty has become a famous story, leading to many books, movies, and songs. The HMS Bounty was a small, three masted, fully rigged, sailing ship. The Bounty became famous when the crew mutinied the ship on 28 April 1789. The captain of the Bounty was named William Bligh.
context_section_description: The ship was built in Hull, England in 1784 and was first called Bethia. In 1787 the ship was rebuilt to carry breadfruit trees. Heat and water were added to the cabins so the trees would survive in cold weather. The British government was hoping the breadfruit trees growing wild in Tahiti could be grown in Jamaica. This would provide cheap food for the slaves working on the sugar farms. The ship was very small - 90 feet 10 inches (27.7 metres) long and 24 feet 4 inches (7.4 metres) wide. The tallest mast was 53 feet (16.1 metres) high.
  The Bounty was captained by Lieutenant William Bligh and he took command on 16 August 1787. On 23 December, 1787, Bounty set off on the long trip to Tahiti.  On the journey, William Bligh tried to go around Cape Horn. He tried for over a month but bad weather and winds stopped the ship. The Bounty was turned around and went the longer way around the Cape of Good Hope.
caption: A modern replica (copy) of the Bounty in Sydney
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