Bounty (1960 ship)
Bounty on Lake Michigan off Chicago, 2010
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| Owner: | HMS Bounty Organization LLC |
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| Launched: | 1960 |
| Homeport: | Greenport, Suffolk County, New York, United States |
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| Fate: | Sunk off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy on 29 October 2012 |
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| Beam: | 31.6 ft (9.6 m) |
| Height: | 111 ft (33.8 m) |
| Draft: | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
| Depth: | 21.3 ft (6.5 m) |
| Installed power: | 2 × John Deere 375 hp (280 kW) diesel engines |
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| Crew: | 12–14 |
Bounty was an enlarged reconstruction of the original 1787 Royal Navy sailing ship HMS Bounty. Built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia in 1960, she sank off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy on 29 October 2012.
The tall ship was often referred to as HMS Bounty, but was not entitled to the use of the prefix "HMS" as she was not commissioned into the Royal Navy. Here "HMS" is treated as part of the popular name, and not as a ship prefix.
Bounty was commissioned by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio for the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty. She was the first large vessel built from scratch for a film using historical sources. Previous film vessels were fanciful conversions of existing vessels. Bounty was built to extrapolated original ship's drawings from files in the British Admiralty archives, and in the traditional manner by more than 200 workers over an 8-month period at the Smith and Rhuland shipyard in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. To assist film-making and carry production staff, her general dimensions were greatly increased resulting in a vessel nearly twice the tonnage of the original . While built primarily for film use, she was fully equipped for sailing because of the requirement to move her a great distance to the filming location. Two other well known reproductions were built at the yard subsequent to Bounty; Bluenose II and HMS Rose.
Bounty was launched on 27 August 1960. Crewed by Lunenburg fishermen and film staff, the vessel sailed via the Panama Canal to Tahiti for filming. Bounty was scheduled to be burned at the end of the film, but actor Marlon Brando protested, so MGM kept the vessel. After filming and a worldwide promotional tour, the ship was berthed in St. Petersburg, Florida as a permanent tourist attraction, where she stayed until the mid-1980s.
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