a dramatic US Coast Guard rescue saved
the lives of 14 crew members of the hms
bounty the 52 year old replica ship took
on water off the North Carolina coast
after suffering mechanical problems
while trying to maneuver around
hurricane sandy one crew member died and
the captain remains missing
the bounty was the first sailing ship
ever built specifically for the making
of a movie MGM Studios mutiny on the
bounty
starring Marlon Brando it was used in
other more recent films including a
Disney Pirates of the Caribbean movie
this never before released film of the
bounty was captured by National
Geographic photographer Louie Martin in
1960 on assignment for National
Geographic magazine
Martin wrote in a lecture presentation
that the building of the ship in
Lunenburg Nova Scotia was a big deal
because the skilled ship rights there
have not had a chance to work on a
wooden ship of this magnitude for years
in fact this was the biggest sailing
ship ever built in Lunenburg the masts
were constructed from logs of Douglas
fir the ship was 30 feet longer than the
original bounty to accommodate modern
engines generators and other machinery
in August of 1960 the bounty slid into
the sea complete with a celebration from
the townsfolk Martin was on board for
its maiden voyage to Tahiti
later that year for the movie filming
but he was only allowed aboard if he
signed on as a crew member and at a
salary of 25 cents a month he agreed he
even nailed into the hall a bronze Chevy
nail from the original bounty it was
Martin in 1957 who discovered its
remains off Pitcairn Island where the
ship was grounded and burned by the
mutineers on the first voyage of the
replica Martin no stranger to sailing
went out on the bow sprit and looked
back toward the ship to film the spread
of canvases all square sails below deck
he filmed the kitchen that helped feed
the crew and what he said was space near
the bunks for games of cribbage Mardon
who later became chief of the National
Geographic foreign editorial staff
filmed the ship sailing into the sunset
he described it here as sailing
Southwest as they reached the longitude
of the mark Hayes’s upon landing in
Tahiti in the same spot Captain Bligh
had anchored nearly 200 years before the
crew was greeted Martin said by some
5,000 people many on outrigger canoes
some with sails during the movie filming
in coming days
Martin captured about three seconds of
marlon brando between Mufi takes the
Bounty’s maiden voyage was a triumphant
beginning for a ship with a tragic
demise nearly 52 years later
you
the lives of 14 crew members of the hms
bounty the 52 year old replica ship took
on water off the North Carolina coast
after suffering mechanical problems
while trying to maneuver around
hurricane sandy one crew member died and
the captain remains missing
the bounty was the first sailing ship
ever built specifically for the making
of a movie MGM Studios mutiny on the
bounty
starring Marlon Brando it was used in
other more recent films including a
Disney Pirates of the Caribbean movie
this never before released film of the
bounty was captured by National
Geographic photographer Louie Martin in
1960 on assignment for National
Geographic magazine
Martin wrote in a lecture presentation
that the building of the ship in
Lunenburg Nova Scotia was a big deal
because the skilled ship rights there
have not had a chance to work on a
wooden ship of this magnitude for years
in fact this was the biggest sailing
ship ever built in Lunenburg the masts
were constructed from logs of Douglas
fir the ship was 30 feet longer than the
original bounty to accommodate modern
engines generators and other machinery
in August of 1960 the bounty slid into
the sea complete with a celebration from
the townsfolk Martin was on board for
its maiden voyage to Tahiti
later that year for the movie filming
but he was only allowed aboard if he
signed on as a crew member and at a
salary of 25 cents a month he agreed he
even nailed into the hall a bronze Chevy
nail from the original bounty it was
Martin in 1957 who discovered its
remains off Pitcairn Island where the
ship was grounded and burned by the
mutineers on the first voyage of the
replica Martin no stranger to sailing
went out on the bow sprit and looked
back toward the ship to film the spread
of canvases all square sails below deck
he filmed the kitchen that helped feed
the crew and what he said was space near
the bunks for games of cribbage Mardon
who later became chief of the National
Geographic foreign editorial staff
filmed the ship sailing into the sunset
he described it here as sailing
Southwest as they reached the longitude
of the mark Hayes’s upon landing in
Tahiti in the same spot Captain Bligh
had anchored nearly 200 years before the
crew was greeted Martin said by some
5,000 people many on outrigger canoes
some with sails during the movie filming
in coming days
Martin captured about three seconds of
marlon brando between Mufi takes the
Bounty’s maiden voyage was a triumphant
beginning for a ship with a tragic
demise nearly 52 years later
you
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