She was built as a 3-masted wooden cargo vessel by Blaydes at Hull for an unknown owner.
Launched under the name BETHIA.
Tonnage 220 ton (bm), dim. 90.10 x 24.4 x 11.4ft. Length of keel 69.11ft.
Ship rigged.
1784 Completed. One of the best known vessels in the Royal Navy, more as 250 books has been published, films made, on what happened on board this vessel, for a full storey see
http://www.lareau.org/sagaintro.htm and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bounty
23 May 1787 bought from the ships agent Messrs. Welbank Sharp & Brown, (most probably he was also the owner) for £1.950 by the British Admiralty, with the plan to send her to the Society Islands to carry bread fruit trees from there to the West Indies.
Registered as an armed vessel.
26 May till 09 October 1787fitted out for her voyage and coppered at Deptford for a total cost of £4.456.
Armed with 4 – 4pdrs. and 10 - ½pdrs. swivels.
06 June 1787 on request of Sir. Joseph Banks was she renamed (HMAV?) BOUNTY.
August 1787 commissioned under command of Cmdr. William Bligh, crew 45 men.
28 November 1787 in the early morning she sailed out from Deptford, but due to headwinds she anchored off Spithead .
23 December 1787 she left her anchorage and sailed out bound for the Society Islands.
06 January 1788 she arrived at Santa Cruz, Canary Islands where she took on board fresh provision and water.
09 January sailed from this port heading south for Cape Horn, early March reached the waters around Cape Horn but adverse weather did Bligh decided to turn around and sail for Cape of Good Hope.
23 May 1788 arrived at False Bay near Cape Town, after some repair there she sailed again on 29 June heading for Australia.
22 August anchored in Adventure Bay, Van Diemens Land, (Tasmania), she stayed there for 14 days to take on board fresh water and firewood.
04 September she sailed again from her anchorage, with course for Otaheite (now Tahiti).
26 October 1788 anchored on the road of Matavai.
She stayed there for more as 5 months collecting the breadfruit plants, when they had enough plants, around 1015; she set sail again on 04 April 1789, arriving at Aitukaki on 11 April, sailing from there on the 17 April.
23 April arrived at Namuka one of the Friendship Islands, and fresh produce were bought, also some dying breadfruit plants were replaced by new ones.
25 April sailed out from Namuka.
28 April 1789 in a position about 50 mile from Tofua a mutiny broke out.
Capt Bligh and 18 loyal crew were put in a longboat, and after a 47day epic voyage arrived at Koepang, Timor.
The BOUNTY after she was taken over by some crew under command of Fletcher Christian, sailed first for the island of Tubuai, but after three months she sailed back to Tahiti.
September 1789 after putting on shore at Tahiti 16 men, Fletcher Christian and 8 crew members, 6 men from Tahiti and 11 women, and 1 baby, the BOUNTY set sail.
15 January 1790 she rediscovered Pitcairn Island and the decision was made to settle on this island, after all provision, livestock and usable parts were removed from the vessel she was burnt on 23 January 1790.
The Aitutaki stamp shows Captain Bligh but the ship depict, carried four yards and is the replica BOUNTY of 1962.)
Source; many web-sites.