

HMS Bounty (known to historians as HMAV Bounty, and to many simply as "The Bounty"), famous as the scene of the Mutiny on the Bounty on 28 April 1789, was originally a three-masted cargo ship, the Bethia, purchased by the British Admiralty, then modified and commissioned as His Majesty's Armed Vessel the Bounty for a botanical mission to the Pacific Ocean. The Bounty featured in the film is actually the second of the many modern day reconstructions of the famous HMS Bounty. This bounty, informally known as Bounty III, was built in New Zealand in 1979 and first used in…