Descendants of the Bounty mutineers Christian Rachel Adams daughter of John Adams by John Evans an English sailor William Young son of Ned Young by Elizabeth Mills daughter of John Mills Edward Quintal son of Matthew Quintal by Dinah Adams daughter of John Adams George Adams son of John Adams by Polly Young daughter of Ned Young The majority of the many rulers of the Pitcairn Islands have been descendants of the "Bounty" mutineers, till this day. In 1935 - in the wake of their successful American blockbuster movie "Mutiny on the Bounty", which premiered that year - the MGM Studios also shot a short
Bounty (1960 ship) Bounty (1960 ship) Bounty was an enlarged reconstruction of the original 1787 Royal Navy sailing ship . Built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia in 1960, she sank off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy on 29 October 2012. The tall ship was often referred to as HMS "Bounty", but was not entitled to the use of the prefix "HMS" as she was not commissioned into the Royal Navy. Here "HMS" is treated as part of the popular name, and not as a ship prefix. "Bounty" was commissioned by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio for the 1962 film "Mutiny on the