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.

The piece of HMS Bounty was salvaged by a Lincolnshire ... The item was retrieved from Pitcairn Island by a serviceman dispatched from RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, in the 1970s.

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.

His name has become a byword for cruelty; a tyrant who drove the crew of his ship, HMS Bounty ... Treasure Island to Hornblower, I’ve been fascinated by the mutiny on the Bounty.

As of July 2014, only 48 people call the Pitcairn Islands and their stunning rocky cliffs home. Back in 1789, British sailors in the Pacific mutinied on the HMS Bounty and settled on Tahiti and ...

HMS Spey carried enough Covid jabs to offer a booster to every eligible person on the islands, most of whom are double vaccinated. Royal Navy sailors delivered Covid vaccines to the descendants of ...

Intrepid wreck detectives track down a range of missing ships from a lost French fleet to the watery location of HMS ... the Bounty, the Pandora came within two days sailing of Pitcairn Island ...