From www.tallshipbounty.org.
The latest HMS Bounty was built for the 1960 MGM's "Mutiny on the Bounty" movie with Marlon Brando and has been in several movies since then and dozens of TV shows. The studio commissioned the ship from Smith and Ruhland in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. It was built in the same way that a ship would have been 200 years ago and constructed from the ship's original drawings.
After the movie's filming, it was berthed in St. Petersburg, Florida, where it remained until the mid 1980s. In 1986, Ted Turner bought the MGM film library and the Bounty. The ship was used to film "Treasure Island" with Charlton Heston in 1989.
In 1993, the Bounty was donated to the Fall River Foundation. In 2001 it was purchased by the HMS Bounty Organization and it was in need of major repairs which were done.
The Bounty sank and was a total loss on 25 October 2012 Hurricane Sandy.
--Cooter
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