HMS Bounty

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HMS Bounty

Replica of Bounty, built in 1960
History
Great Britain
Name	Bethia
Owner	Private merchant service
Builder	Reputedly Blaydes Yard, Kingston-upon-Hull, England
Launched	1784
In service	1784–1787
Fate	Sold to the Royal Navy, 23 May 1787
Great Britain
Name	Bounty
Cost	purchased for £1,950
Acquired	23 May 1787
Commissioned	16 August 1787
In service	1787–1790
Fate	Burned by mutineers, 23 January 1790
General characteristics
Tons burthen	22026⁄94 (bm)
Length	90 ft 10 in (27.7 m)
Beam	24 ft 4 in (7.4 m)
Depth of hold	11 ft 4 in (3.5 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	44 officers and men
Armament	4 × 4 pdr (1.8 kg) guns 10 × swivel guns

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 sent to the South Pacific Ocean under the command of William Bligh to acquire breadfruit plants and transport them to the British West Indies. That mission was never completed owing to a 1789 mutiny led by acting lieutenant Fletcher Christian, an incident now popularly known as the Mutiny on the Bounty.^[1] The mutineers later burned Bounty while she was moored at Pitcairn Island in the Southern Pacific Ocean in 1790. An American adventurer helped land several remains of Bounty in 1957.