On Pitcairn Island, a tiny, wooded, steep, craggy scrap of land in the South Pacific, they beached and burned the Bounty, hoped they were safe from reprisal. They were not safe from one another.
A relic from the ship involved in the infamous mutiny on the Bounty is due to be auctioned later, despite an attempt by the Royal Navy to block the sale. The large piece of copper from HMS Bounty was ...
Today, every permanent resident of Pitcairn can trace their lineage back to the Bounty mutineers, with the wreck of the ship still visible beneath the island’s waters. Despite its fascinating ...
which was at the heart of the infamous mutiny on the Bounty in 1789, fetched £3,800 at a sale run by Hanson Auctioneers earlier. The item was retrieved from Pitcairn Island by a serviceman ...
In January 1974 I visited and Pitcairn Island and I was able to stay ashore ... These relics of HMS Bounty are sheathing nails that were used to fix protective copper sheathing to hull.
Royal Navy sailors delivered Covid vaccines to the descendants of the Bounty when patrol ship HMS Spey visited the tiny Pitcairn Islands in the Pacific. The islands – which are in the middle of ...
As of July 2014, only 48 people call the Pitcairn Islands and their stunning rocky cliffs home. Back in 1789, British sailors in the Pacific mutinied on the HMS Bounty and settled on Tahiti and ...