HMS Bounty Tall Ship Model

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HMS Bounty Ship Model

Dimensions: 37"Long x 10" Wide x 30"Heigh

HMS Bounty Wooden Tall Ship Model 37" Exclusive Edition

Here is a rare hand built wooden model ship. The HMS Bounty model ship is made of all natural wood with hundreds of feet of linen rigging and brass fittings and railings.

This wooden model ship is extremely well detailed. It even has a moving rudder. She also has a brass bell on the deck. There are slip knots on the sails to adjust the tension on the string. To obtain a realistic look for the deck and hull, the plank on frame method of construction is used with mahogany and rosewood, which requires hundreds of hours of pain-staking, detail work.

This model ship has cannons on the port and strarboard sides. She is one of the most ornately decorated ships we offer. There are multiple deck levels on this ship. This model ship has three lookouts or crows nests. She even has candelebras on the stern.   It takes over two hundred hours to build this fine ship model.

All fittings are brass or wood and are of the finest quality. This is by far one of the finest ships we have to offer. Look at the details and you will be amazed! This model will be a treasured heirloom for generations to come. A mahogany display case is available e-mail with questions. There is a limited supply so don't miss out!

Construction: Months of research goes into the planning of these model boats. Original plans and pictures are used for their design and realism.

 

  • Rosewood: For the hull
  • Ebony: for blocks and details
  • English Sycamore: for the hull
  • Blackwood: for the hull
  • Mahogany: For the masts, squares and crows nests
  • Cherry wood: for the deck
  • Metal: cannons, muskets, anchors and other tiny details chrome plate, brass plate and gold plate
  • Sails and rigging are made of linen

  Each model ship is examined during various stages of manufacturing and shiing to ensure the highest quality and accuracy possible for your investment.

Historic Past:

HMS Bounty was a coal carrying merchant ship operating on the coast of England, named the Bethia, was purchased by the Admiralty, renamed the Bounty, and re-commissioned in 1787 for a special mission. She was to sail halfway around the world to Tahiti, collect sapling breadfruit trees and transport them to the West Indies. Owners of the burgeoning British plantations there needed a cheap source of food for the workers.

To lead the mission, the Admiralty picked 33-year-old Lt. William Bligh, who had been the sailing master on the HMS Resolution, on Capt. Cook's last voyage of discovery. Though portrayed as an abusive tyrant by Hollywood, Bligh may be one of the greatest seamen who ever lived. After trying for 30 days to make it westward around Cape Horn, as he had been ordered, Bligh turned about and headed East; around the Cape of Good Hope, across the whole width of the Indian Ocean, then Northeast into the Pacific, arriving in Tahiti after a l0 month voyage. Bligh and the crew set about collecting the more than 1000 breadfruit plants they were to take to the Caribbean. They spent five months in Tahiti, during which time Bligh allowed a number of the crew to live ashore, to care for the potted breadfruit plants. Without the discipline and rigid schedule of the sea, the men went native. Three crewmen deserted, hoping to spend their days in this tropical paradise; but were recaptured by Bligh and flogged.

Three weeks out of Tahiti, enroute to the West Indies with the breadfruit plants, Master's Mate (Acting Lieutenant) Fletcher Christian, angered and humiliated over the continual abuse from Capt. Bligh took the ship. Of the 44 men on board, 31 sided with Bligh. Of the 31, 18 went over the side to be set adrift in the Bounty's launch with Bligh. The mutineers, numbering about half of the remaining 25 crewmen, but in command of the Bounty having secured all the firearms aboard, sailed the ship to the island of Tubuai. After an unsuccessful three month effort to settle on the island, they returned to Tahiti, put 16 of the crew ashore, some loyal to Bligh, some mutineers. Fletcher Christian and eight Bounty crew, accompanied by six Tahitian men and twelve women, one with a baby, sailed away in the Bounty hoping to hide forever from the long arm of the British law.

Bligh having no charts navigated the launch 3600 nautical miles to safety in 41 days using only a sextant and a pocket watch. Only one man died on the voyage - stoned to death by angry natives on the first island they tried to land on. The launch voyage was a feat of navigation unparalleled to this day.

The mutineers eventually settled on Pitcairn Island, an isolated rock in the Pacific that was misplaced on British charts. They burned the ship in what is now called Bounty Bay and weren't discovered for 18 years. After all but two of the fifteen men that settled on Pitcairn had been killed in bloody murders, Midshipman Edward Young and Able Bodied Seaman John Adams began building a society based on the ship's bible. Edward Young died in 1800, leaving John Adams the sole survivor. Today their descendants still live there in a moralistic community, clinging to their tiny rock, struggling to survive in today's technological world.

Jill Rutheford on 03/04/2013 04:10pm
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