Overview
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. Sixteen crew were aboard. Fourteen were rescued. Deckhand Claudene Christian, 42, died and Capt. Robin Walbridge, 63, was never found.
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.
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Robert
Hansen
Smithtown
NY
USA
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