Bounty (1960 ship)

Bounty

Bounty on Lake Michigan off Chicago, 2010
History
United States
Owner	HMS Bounty Organization LLC
Builder	Smith and Rhuland Ltd, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Launched	1960
Homeport	Greenport, Suffolk County, New York, United States
Identification	Call sign: WDD9114 MMSI number: 369191000
Fate	Sunk off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy on 29 October 2012[1]
General characteristics
Tonnage	409 GT 181 NT
Length	180 ft (54.9 m) sparred 120 ft (37 m) on deck
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.