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{{hatnote|This article is about the replica ship. For the original ship, see [[Engineering:HMS Bounty|HMS Bounty]]. Not to be confused with [[Engineering:Bounty (1960 ship)|Bounty (1960 ship)]]. For other uses, see Bounty (disambiguation). }}
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|Ship owner=HKR International<ref name=www.thebounty.com.hk>{{cite web|url=http://www.thebounty.com.hk/ |title=European Tall Ship Replica The Bounty |publisher=Hong Kong Resort Company |access-date=2012-10-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723125740/http://www.thebounty.com.hk/ |archive-date=2012-07-23 }}</ref>
|Ship operator=Hong Kong Resort Company <ref name=www.thebounty.com.hk/>
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|Ship builder= Oceania Marine (Whangarei, New Zealand) <ref name="BOUNTY - 1001049 - SAILING VESSEL">
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|url= http://maritime-connector.com/ship/bounty-1001049/
|title= BOUNTY - 1001049 - SAILING VESSEL
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|Ship launched= 16 December 1978<ref name="Whangārei and the Bounty">{{cite web|url= https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/whangarei-and-the-bounty/S6R7UFC7P4ZT3C2PQ3M5RNLYYM/|title= Whangārei and the Bounty|date=15 December 2018|website=nzherald.co.nz|accessdate=28 June 2021}}</ref>
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|Ship homeport= Discovery Bay (Lantau Island), New Territories, [[Place:Hong Kong|Hong Kong]],<ref name=www.thebounty.com.hk/>
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*{{MMSI|477991091}}<ref name="BOUNTY - 1001049 - SAILING VESSEL"/>
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'''''Bounty'''''<ref name="BOUNTY - 1001049 - SAILING VESSEL"/> (popularly '''HMAV ''Bounty''''')<ref group="FN">The ship is not entitled to the use of the prefix 'HMAV' as it has never been commissioned into the Royal Navy. Here 'HMAV' is treated as part of the popular name, and not as a [[Engineering:Ship prefix|ship prefix]].</ref> was built in 1977/78 for the movie ''The Bounty'' starring Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins. The ship launched on 16 December 1978<ref name="Whangārei and the Bounty">{{cite web|url= https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/whangarei-and-the-bounty/S6R7UFC7P4ZT3C2PQ3M5RNLYYM/|title= Whangārei and the Bounty|date=15 December 2018|website=nzherald.co.nz|accessdate=28 June 2021}}</ref> and was decommissioned in 2017.

==Design and construction==
For the filming of ''The Bounty'', a replica of William Bligh's ship, {{HMS|Bounty}} was required. The ''Bounty'' replica was built by Whangarei Engineering Company at Whangarei, New Zealand during 1978 and 1979.<ref>Clarke & Iggulden, ''Sailing Home'', pp. 1, 16</ref> The ship was designed to externally conform to the original ''Bounty''.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1>Clarke & Iggulden, ''Sailing Home'', p. 1</ref> The replica is {{convert|40.5|m}} in [[Engineering:Length overall|length overall]], with a beam of {{convert|8.5|m}} and a draught of {{convert|3.8|m}}.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden16>Clarke & Iggulden, ''Sailing Home'', p. 16</ref>

To reflect the international legacy of the Mutiny on the ''Bounty'', materials for the ship were sourced from across the British Commonwealth.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/> The hull was fabricated from Australian steel, which was [[Engineering:Carvel (boat building)|carvel-clad]] in New Zealand [[Biology:Iroko|iroko]].<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/> The decking is New Zealand [[Biology:Phyllocladus trichomanoides|tānekaha]].<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/> The masts and spars were made of Canadian pine, with sails made from Scottish [[Biology:Flax|flax]], and [[Engineering:Block (sailing)|blocks]] of English ash and elm.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/> The sail plan was of a [[Engineering:Barque|barque]]: some sources describe the layout as a [[Engineering:Full-rigged ship|full-rigged ship]], but the ship lacks a topgallant on the mizzen-mast.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/> The ship's mast height is {{convert|29|m}}, with a sail area of {{convert|650|m2}}.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden16/> Auxiliary propulsion is provided by two {{convert|415|hp|adj=on}} turbocharged Kelvin 8-cylinder diesel engines, which can propel the ship at {{convert|7|kn}}.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden16/>

==History==
The film ''The Bounty'' was completed and released in 1984.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/> ''Bounty'' was laid up in Los Angeles until 1986, when Bounty Voyages purchased the ship.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/> She was sailed to Vancouver, refitted, then sailed to Australia.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/> From here, she proceeded to England via the Suez Canal to join the First Fleet Re-enactment Voyage: a historical re-enactment for the Australian Bicentenary.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/> She left England for Australia in May 1987, and sailed with the fleet via [[Earth:Tenerife|Tenerife]], Rio de Janeiro, [[Place:Cape Town|Cape Town]], [[Earth:Mauritius|Mauritius]], and Fremantle before arriving in Sydney on Australia Day (26 January) 1988.<ref>King, ''The First Fleet''. p. 89-90</ref> ''Bounty'' was originally to be flagship of the re-creation voyage (due to the ship's similarities to {{HMS|Sirius|1786|6}}, flagship of the original First Fleet), but the fleet commodore instead selected ''[[Engineering:Søren Larsen (ship)|Søren Larsen]]'' for the role.<ref name=King121.2>King, ''Australia's First Fleet'', pp. 121-2</ref>

For many years she served the tourist excursion market from Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia, before being sold to real estate conglomerate HKR International Limited in October 2007.

The company gave The Bounty an additional name in Chinese, ''{{lang|zh|濟民號}}'' <ref>
{{cite web
|url=http://www.hkri.com/icms2/ICMServlet/download/223-2772-9252/BountyFactSheet_ENG_20121024.pdf
|title=The Bounty
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402183749/http://www.hkri.com/icms2/ICMServlet/download/223-2772-9252/BountyFactSheet_ENG_20121024.pdf
|archive-date=2015-04-02
}}</ref> (Cantonese Jyutping: ''Zaimanhou'' ; Mandarin Pinyin: ''Jiminhao'' ; English: ''Bounty'') after company founder Cha Chi Ming.
For the following decade, the ship was used as a tourist attraction in Discovery Bay, on Lantau Island in [[Place:Hong Kong|Hong Kong]], where it was used  for harbour cruises, charters, day excursions, weddings and corporate retreats
.<ref name='Geoff D'>{{cite book
|last=D′Eon
|first=Geoff
|year=2018
|title=Bounty: The Greatest Sea Story of Them All
|url=http://www.formac.ca/Book/3074/Bounty-The-Greatest-Sea-Story-of-Them-All.html
|publisher=Formac
|page=153 
|isbn=9781459505445
}}</ref> 
With no publicity or explanation, HKRI decommissioned The Bounty on 1 August 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thebounty.hk/icms2/template?series=606|title=The Bounty web site|website=www.thebounty.hk|access-date=2019-01-20}}</ref>  The fate of the ship was left undisclosed.

Following this, the ship has been spotted in Phra Samut Chedi, at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River in Thailand. It was rechristened The Bounty (เดอะ บาวน์ตี้).<ref>
{{cite web
|url=https://twitter.com/misterkwai/status/1492407854258884608
|title=The HMAV Bounty relocated to Thailand
}}</ref>

Google shows the ship clearly both aerially (dated 2022) and from 'Street View' (dated Oct 2020) from boats travelling up the Chao Phraya River.

==See also==
* {{HMS|Bounty}}
* {{ship||Bounty|1960 ship}}, replica built in Canada in 1960 for the 1962 MGM film ''Mutiny on the Bounty''.

==Footnotes==
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==Citations==
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==References==
*{{cite book|last=Clarke |first=Malcolm |author2=Iggulden, David |title=Sailing Home: a pictorial record of the First Fleet Re-enactment voyage |publisher=Angus and Robertson |location=North Ryde, NSW |date=1988 |isbn=0207159653 |oclc=21041747}}
*{{cite book|last=King |first=Jonathan |title=Australia's First Fleet: the voyage and the re-enactment, 1788/1988 |publisher=Robertsbridge Limited and Fairfax Magazines |location=North Sydney, NSW and Waterloo, NSW |date=1987 |isbn=0947178163 |oclc=23869501}}

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