Bounty Bible and Elizabeth Bligh's marriage certificate, a prayer book, and other artifacts. On 15 October 1940 the Pitcairn Islands Post Office opened with the release of the first Pitcairn Islands postage stamps; the 4d (fourpence) value issued on 1 September 1951 features an illustration of the Bible. Bounty Bible The "Bounty" Bible is a Bible that is thought to have been used on HMS "Bounty", the ship famed for the Mutiny on the "Bounty". In January 1790, nine of the mutineers from the ship and their Tahitian companions (six men, eleven women and a baby) settled on Pitcairn Island, having anchored
HMS Bounty Christian was found to be unresponsive and pronounced dead at Albemarle Hospital in Elizabeth City, NC. A second "Bounty" replica, named HMAV "Bounty", was built in New Zealand in 1979 and used in the 1984 film "The Bounty". The hull is constructed of welded steel oversheathed with timber. For many years she served the tourist excursion market from Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia, before being sold to HKR International Limited in October 2007. She is now a tourist attraction (also used for charter, excursions and sail training) based in Discovery Bay, on Lantau Island in Hong Kong, and has an additional