The following article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy
Newsletter and is copyright by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-
published here with the permission of the author. Information
about the newsletter is available at http://www.eogn.com. I am
sure you have read about the loss of tall ship "HMS" Bounty in
the super storm Sandy. The ship was a replica of the famous HMS
Bounty seized by Fletcher Christian and other mutineers in 1789.
One crew member of the modern replica, Claudene Christian, has
died and the ship's captain is missing. In an ironic twist,
Claudene Christian was the great-great-great-great-great-
granddaughter of Fletcher Christian, the instigator of the
original mutiny. An almost exact replica of the original, the
"HMS" Bounty was built for the 1962 filming of the Hollywood
Classic “Mutiny on the Bounty”, starring Marlon Brando, but also
featured the helm used in the 1935 movie starring Clark Gable.
In recent years, the Bounty made cameo appearances in a score of
movies from “Treasure Island” and S