The large piece of copper from HMS Bounty was retrieved from Pitcairn Island – where the ship was scuttled in 1790 – by a serviceman dispatched from RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, in the 1970s.

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.

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 ...

In it's search of the Bounty, the Pandora came within two days sailing of Pitcairn Island where the Bounty mutineers had settled. However the mutineers fate was only revealed to the outside world ...

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 ...

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.

The large piece of copper from HMS Bounty was retrieved from Pitcairn Island – where the ship was scuttled in 1790 – by a serviceman dispatched from RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, in the 1970s. John ...