USS Metha Nelson
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Metha Nelson was built as a wooden‑hulled merchant schooner which was later used in historic movies as a full-rigged ship. During World War II, she served the United States Navy.
USS Metha Nelson (IX-74)
HMS Bounty
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HMS Bounty, also known as HMAV Bounty, was a British merchant ship that the Royal Navy purchased in 1787 for a botanical mission. The ship was sent to the South Pacific Ocean under the command of Will
USS Metha Nelson
…Metha Nelson is incorrectly mentioned in context of the 1935 movie Mutiny on the Bounty. The two ships in this production were Lily as a replica of HMAV Bounty and Nanuk as HMS Pandora. In 1938, MGM rented out Metha Nelson to a party including the celebrity lady Dorothy Cadwell Dentice di Frasso and mobster…
Replica of Bounty, built in 1960
Plan and section of the Bounty Armed Transport showing the manner of fitting and stowing the pots for receiving the bread-fruit plants, from William Bligh's 1792 account of the voyage and mutiny, entitled A Voyage to the South Sea, available from Project Gutenberg.
Mutineers turning Bligh and crew adrift, by Robert Dodd, 1790
Bounty Bay, where Bounty was grounded and set alight