Model of HM BOUNTY

Modern scale replica of HM BOUNTY.

HM Armed Vessel BOUNTY. Built at Blaydes Shipyard in 1794 in Hull England as the collier BETHIA at a cost of £1,950. Refitted and renamed BOUNTY in 1787 for Bligh’s breadfruit expedition of 1787-1789.

The mutiny on board BOUNTY took place on 28th April, 1789, and resulted in Bligh and 18 of his men being cast adrift. Their subsequent voyage to safety in the open boat covered more than 4000 miles of the Pacific one of the most arduous and famous of all voyages.