HMS Bounty — Tall Ship Model, Handcrafted Wood | Admiral Line

The ship whose crew wrote itself into history. A museum-grade, fully assembled wood replica of H.M.S. Bounty — the 18th-century Royal Navy vessel behind the most famous mutiny at sea.

Built plank-on-frame from scratch in western red cedar, rosewood and mahogany. Hundreds of hours per hull, then a full quality inspection before it ships.

Details worth looking closely at

• Two-tone wood hull over plank-on-frame construction, three decks
• Distinctive bowsprit with brass figures and carved wood panels
• Hand-knotted rigging across bowsprit and three masts
• Hand-stitched linen sails on every yard
• Deck fittings: cast cannons, rib-and-plank lifeboats, wooden crane, windlass, bell tower
• Stern quarters with brass lantern, cast statuary and brass ornament
• Metal anchors, wooden rudder
• Solid wood base and engraved brass nameplate

Exclusive Edition

Each hull carries an etched serial number tying it to its build date, materials and workshop record.

History

Launched in Hull in 1784 as the merchant vessel Bethia, she was bought by the Navy Board in May 1787 at Sir Joseph Banks's urging and renamed Bounty. At 90 ft 10 in long with a 24 ft 4 in beam, she sailed for the Pacific under William Bligh to collect breadfruit for the West Indies. She never delivered it. Acting Master Fletcher Christian seized the ship in 1789 and sailed her to what is now Bounty Bay, where the mutineers burned her on 23 January 1790 to hide from the Navy and from each other.