Bounty 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" in a small bay on the northern side of the island and set it on fire after everything of utility was landed. Pitcairn had ample food, water and land for everyone and a mild climate. However after four years the community was in turmoil
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