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john sefton
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Bounty HMS

Post by john sefton » Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:41 pm

The picture of armed vessel Bounty (Capt Bligh) on the 6d Pitcairn Islands stamp is built up from details supplied by the Admiralty, there being no authentic picture of the Bounty existing. She was not built for, but was acquired by, the Royal Navy. This vignette, therefore—like the Merlin vignette— is purely a representation of a ship of the period, and both stamps appear to be the work of the same artist. There is a very strong likeness between the two ships, and the artist has given both vessels starboard shrouds, but none on the port side. The Bounty was formerly named Bethia, and was bought by the Admiralty from Richard Bentham, father-in-law of Bligh for £1,950. She was armed with four 4pdr. guns and 10 small swivel-guns, carried a crew of 46 and displaced 215 tons, her overall length being 90ft and her breadth 24ft. The story of the mutiny is too well known to need recapitulation.
Sea Breezes Sept 1951.
Pitcairn Is SG4,6,37,168 and many others
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aukepalmhof
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Re: Bounty HMS

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu Mar 25, 2010 8:12 pm

She was built as a 3-masted wooden cargo vessel by Blaydes at Hull for an unknown owner.
Launched under the name BETHIA.
Tonnage 220 ton (bm), dim. 90.10 x 24.4 x 11.4ft. Length of keel 69.11ft.
Ship rigged.
1784 Completed. One of the best known vessels in the Royal Navy, more as 250 books has been published, films made, on what happened on board this vessel, for a full storey see http://www.lareau.org/sagaintro.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bounty
23 May 1787 bought from the ships agent Messrs. Welbank Sharp & Brown, (most probably he was also the owner) for £1.950 by the British Admiralty, with the plan to send her to the Society Islands to carry bread fruit trees from there to the West Indies.
Registered as an armed vessel.
26 May till 09 October 1787fitted out for her voyage and coppered at Deptford for a total cost of £4.456.
Armed with 4 – 4pdrs. and 10 - ½pdrs. swivels.
06 June 1787 on request of Sir. Joseph Banks was she renamed (HMAV?) BOUNTY.
August 1787 commissioned under command of Cmdr. William Bligh, crew 45 men.
28 November 1787 in the early morning she sailed out from Deptford, but due to headwinds she anchored off Spithead .
23 December 1787 she left her anchorage and sailed out bound for the Society Islands.
06 January 1788 she arrived at Santa Cruz, Canary Islands where she took on board fresh provision and water.
09 January sailed from this port heading south for Cape Horn, early March reached the waters around Cape Horn but adverse weather did Bligh decided to turn around and sail for Cape of Good Hope.
23 May 1788 arrived at False Bay near Cape Town, after some repair there she sailed again on 29 June heading for Australia.
22 August anchored in Adventure Bay, Van Diemens Land, (Tasmania), she stayed there for 14 days to take on board fresh water and firewood.
04 September she sailed again from her anchorage, with course for Otaheite (now Tahiti).
26 October 1788 anchored on the road of Matavai.
She stayed there for more as 5 months collecting the breadfruit plants, when they had enough plants, around 1015; she set sail again on 04 April 1789, arriving at Aitukaki on 11 April, sailing from there on the 17 April.
23 April arrived at Namuka one of the Friendship Islands, and fresh produce were bought, also some dying breadfruit plants were replaced by new ones.
25 April sailed out from Namuka.
28 April 1789 in a position about 50 mile from Tofua a mutiny broke out.
Capt Bligh and 18 loyal crew were put in a longboat, and after a 47day epic voyage arrived at Koepang, Timor.
The BOUNTY after she was taken over by some crew under command of Fletcher Christian, sailed first for the island of Tubuai, but after three months she sailed back to Tahiti.
September 1789 after putting on shore at Tahiti 16 men, Fletcher Christian and 8 crew members, 6 men from Tahiti and 11 women, and 1 baby, the BOUNTY set sail.
15 January 1790 she rediscovered Pitcairn Island and the decision was made to settle on this island, after all provision, livestock and usable parts were removed from the vessel she was burnt on 23 January 1790.

The Aitutaki stamp shows Captain Bligh but the ship depict, carried four yards and is the replica BOUNTY of 1962.)

Source; many web-sites.
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aukepalmhof
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Re: Bounty HMAV

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Jun 25, 2014 9:48 pm

The HMAV Bounty left Tahiti on April 4th 1789 and headed for the Tongan Islands. Time on the idyllic island had made the crew soft, forcing Bligh to order brutal floggings to bring them into line. Severely discontented, eighteen members of the crew, led by Christian, conspired to mutiny. On April 28th they entered Bligh’s cabin, awakened him and pushed him on deck wearing only his nightshirt.

Eighteen of the loyal crew were put into the Bounty’s open boat with Bligh. In what is regarded as a remarkable feat of seamanship and navigation, Bligh navigated the overcrowded 23-foot (7M) open boat on an epic forty-seven day, 3,618 nautical mile (6,701 km) voyage to Timor, equipped only with a sextant and a pocket watch (without charts or compass). He then returned to Britain and reported the mutiny to the Admiralty on 15 March 1790, 2 years and 11 weeks after his original departure.

Meanwhile, the mutineers returned to Tahiti to avoid detection, but feeling unsafe, they made an unsuccessful attempt at settling in Tubuai, before returning to Tahiti yet again and put some crew ashore. Finally Christian, eight other crewmen, six Polynesian men and twelve women, one with a baby, set sail hoping to elude the Royal Navy. The mutineers went in search of Pitcairn Island, which they knew had been misplaced on Royal Navy charts and upon discovery in January 1790, they then took ashore the stores and burned and sank the Bounty, in Bounty Bay. To this day remnants of her timbers, nails and ballast stones are still visible in the waters of the Bay.

Pitcairn Island 2014 100/300c sg?, scott? FDC. 1992 NZ$ 1,00 sg 423, scott 376
Guinea-Bissau 2019 3300FCFA sgMS?, scott?
Source: Pitcairn Island Post web-site.

Penrhyn 1983 36c on 30c sg307
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Arturo
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Re: Bounty HMS

Post by Arturo » Sun Feb 15, 2015 9:20 pm

Bounty HMS

Aitutaki 1974, S.G.?, Scott: C2.

Aitutaki 1974, S.G.?, Scott: C3.

Aitutaki 1984, S.G.?, Scott: 351.

Aitutaki 1984, S.G.?, Scott: 352.

Aitutaki 1989, S.G.?, Scott: 432.

Aitutaki 1989, S.G.?, Scott: 434.
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Arturo
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Re: Bounty HMS

Post by Arturo » Mon Mar 02, 2015 9:19 pm

HMS Bounty

Tonga 1985, S.G.?, Scott: 595.

Tonga 1989, S.G.?, Scott: 711.

Tonga 1989, S.G.?, Scott: 712.

Tonga 1989, S.G.?, Scott: 713.

Tonga 1989, S.G.?, Scott: 1016.
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D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen
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Re: Bounty HMS

Post by D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen » Sun May 21, 2017 2:55 pm

Dhufar 1977,2b. StG.?
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D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen
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Re: Bounty HMS

Post by D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen » Thu May 03, 2018 6:40 pm

Niuafo'ou 1991, 32s. StG.152; 1994 2x80 s. StG.208/9
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Anatol
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Re: Bounty HMS

Post by Anatol » Mon Nov 11, 2019 8:43 pm

HMS Bounty Djibouti 2019;250fd; SG?
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