BOUNTY, HMS


Meaning of BOUNTY, HMS in English

British armed transport ship remembered for the mutiny of its crew on April 28, 1789.

Commanded by Capt. Bounty to {{link=Pitcairn Island">Pitcairn Island , where the small colony they founded remained undiscovered until 1808 and where their descendants still live. Of the mutineers who later went to Tahiti, three were taken to Britain and hanged.

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