![]() Bounty on Lake Michigan off Chicago, 2010
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History | |
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Owner | HMS Bounty Organization LLC |
Builder | Smith and Rhuland Ltd, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia |
Launched | 1960 |
Homeport | Greenport, Suffolk County, New York, United States |
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Fate | Sunk off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy on 29 October 2012[1] |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | |
Length |
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Beam | 31.6 ft (9.6 m) |
Height | 111 ft (33.8 m) |
Draft | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
Depth | 21.3 ft (6.5 m) |
Installed power | 2 × John Deere 375 hp (280 kW) diesel engines |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship, sail area 10,000 sq ft (929 m2) |
Crew | 12–14 |
Bounty was an enlarged reconstruction of the original 1787 Royal Navy sailing ship HMS Bounty, built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in 1960. She sank off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 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.