Bounty (ship, 1960)
 The bounty when leaving Greenock
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The Bounty was a replica of the sailing ship Bounty from the 18th century , made in 1960 and 1961 . It was built especially for the film Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). The ship was sometimes referred to as HMS Bounty II or variants thereof to distinguish it from the original , but neither the abbreviation HMS , which is reserved for British naval facilities, nor the numbers were part of the ship's name .
Although it was equipped with engines differently from the original, the Bounty was the first life-size and complete reconstruction of a historical sailor that was only made for a film. After being used in several other films, it was used for charter and adventure trips with passengers and as a museum ship .
The bounty sank off Cape Hatteras during Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012, with the loss of two crew members.
history
The film bounty was built on behalf of the production company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) at a Canadian shipyard in Lunenburg . For the shooting, the engine-equipped replica drove through the Panama Canal to Tahiti . At the end of the filming, the ship was supposed to be burned like the original, which the main actor Marlon Brando prevented. After a worldwide advertising tour, the MGM still owned ship was brought to Saint Petersburg in Florida, where it had served as a tourist attraction since 1965. It was also active in several documentaries and for advertising.
In 1983 the bounty was used for the pirate comedy Dotterbart . Decorated differently, it represented three different ships there. The film work took place on the west coast of Mexico. In 1986, Ted Turner, as the new owner of the MGM, also took over the replica of the Bounty . For a film adaptation of the novel Treasure Island (1989), the ship came back to the film.
In 1993 Turner gave the bounty to the Fall River Chamber Foundation, which used the ship for educational purposes under the Tall Ship Bounty Foundation . In 2001 the ship was taken over by the HMS Bounty Organization LLC . In the meantime, the hull in particular was in need of overhaul, which meant that the sailing ship almost sank due to a pump failure shortly before the start of a ferry trip from Fall River (Massachusetts) to a shipyard in Boothbay Harbor . In 2002, large parts of the underwater hull were renewed. The bounty also got new engines, propellers, fuel and drinking water tanks.
In 2005, the bounty was used as Edinburgh Trader in the second part of the pirate comedy Pirates of the Caribbean and was seen anonymously in the background of a harbor scene in the third part, At World's End . Before filming in the Caribbean, the ship had been restored at the expense of the Walt Disney Company and optically changed in line with the planned filming. The standing and running rigging was also renewed. The comedy-oriented porn film Pirates , also shot in 2005, also took place in parts on the Bounty replica in the port of Saint Petersburg in Florida.
A tour up the Mississippi that was planned after the shooting had to be canceled due to Hurricane Katrina . In Boothbay Harbor, the ship was again in a dock for an overhaul by mid-2007 in order to prepare it for a trip around the world. This time mainly the parts of the hull above the waterline were renewed; In addition, the interior design was changed to increase the comfort for passengers and crew. In total, the ship had berths for almost 50 people. Since 2007, the Bounty has been seen in Europe , on both coasts of the USA and on the Galapagos Islands .
When visiting the port festival in 2011 in Bremerhaven , the ship was damaged on port side while attempting to maneuver the bounty through the pleasure boat lock. The attempt was aborted and the infiltration then succeeded through the originally intended Kaiserschleuse .
Downfall
On October 29, 2012, the bounty sank during Hurricane Sandy about 140 kilometers southeast of Cape Hatteras ( North Carolina , USA) in the Atlantic Ocean ; its last reported position was: 33 ° 54 '11 " N , 73 ° 50' 20" W .
The ship got into stormy seas with waves of up to six meters. Due to the failure of the on-board power supply, the bilge pumps failed and the ship was full. The 16 crew members first tried to make an emergency call via satellite phone and the Maritime Mobile Net on shortwave . However, these attempts were unsuccessful. Only sending an e-mail by the captain and radio amateur Robin Walbridge, nickname KD4OHZ, the US Coast Guard by WinLink on a amateur radio band led to the initiation of rescue operations. Ultimately, the crew gave up the ship and got into the life rafts . Three people, including the master, were washed off board. One of the three could be pulled out of the water, so that 14 people were in the two life rafts.
The Coast Guard sent a Lockheed C-130 to search for the ship and to re-establish contact with the ship's crew, which had now been lost. After this was successful, two Coast Guard MH-60 helicopters flew to the specified position despite adverse weather and rough seas. The helicopter crews were able to pick up the 14 castaways from the life rafts. A 42-year-old female crew member, who had been drifting in the water until the helicopter arrived, was recovered unconscious from the sea and died shortly afterwards in a hospital. The dead person is Claudene Christian (born October 18, 1970). She is said to have been the direct descendant of Fletcher Christian , the leader of the mutiny on the Bounty of April 28, 1789, in the seventh generation . The 63-year-old captain Robin Walbridge is missing .
The official investigation of the incident by the National Transportation Safety Board attributes the ship's sinking to the "negligent decision of the captain" to drive an aging ship and an inexperienced crew exactly into the predicted path of a hurricane. The lack of supervision of ship safety by the operator contributed to the marine casualty.
technology
The Bounty was a three-masted full ship with 18 sails with a total area of about 930 m². The total length was about 55 m, the length of the deck about 36.5 m. The ship was built according to the original plans received from the British Admiralty, but about 1 ⁄ 3 larger because otherwise it would have become too narrow for the filming.
As an auxiliary drive and to comply with modern maritime regulations, the Bounty had two diesel engines , each driving a four- bladed propeller.
Another replica
For the 1984 feature film The Bounty, another bounty was built in 1978 , sometimes referred to as Bounty III . She was long seaworthy in Hong Kong and was decommissioned in 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b film description
- ↑ Interesting facts about "Yellowbeard" ( Memento from February 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Bounty rams Kaje. July 27, 2011, archived from the original (Original content under the URL also not available in the Internet Archive).
- ↑ Robin Walbridge, KD4OHZ, Missing at Sea after Sinking of Tall Ship Bounty; Ship's Electrician Doug Faunt, N6TQS, Rescued. American radio relay league, November 1, 2012, accessed November 27, 2012 (American English).
- ↑ Captain Robin Walbridge, KD4OHZ, Sends Winlink Message - Saves 14 Crew of HMS Bounty. WINLINK 2000, accessed November 27, 2012 (American English).
- ^ Rescued crew member of the Bounty is dead , Spiegel Online, October 30, 2012.
- ↑ The Telegraph : Sandy's Bounty victim was descendent of man who led famous mutiny of October 30, 2012 (English)
- ↑ Witness recounts Claudene Christian's last minutes on Bounty ( Memento of 11 December 2013, Internet Archive ), The Chronicle Herald (English) .
- ↑ HMS Bounty replica sunk offshore Eastern US coast in hurricane "Sandy" , CBC Canada, October 29, 2012.
- ^ The last hours of the "HMS Bounty" , Spiegel Online, October 30, 2012.
- ^ "Sinking of Tall Ship Bounty," National Transportation Safety Board, Feb. 6, 2014
Web links
- Final days of Bounty (English) Detailed timing as an interactive graphic.
Coordinates: 33 ° 54 ′ 11 " N , 73 ° 50 ′ 20" W.