High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Bounty, famous as the scene of the Mutiny on the Bounty on 28 April 1789, was originally a three-masted cargo ship, the Bethia, purchased by the British Admiralty, then modified and commissioned as His Majesty's Armed Vessel the Bounty for a botanical mission to the Pacific Ocean. Bounty began her career as the collier Bethia, built in 1784 at the Blaydes shipyard near Hull. Later she was purchased by the Royal Navy for 2,600 on 26 May 1787, refit, and renamed Bounty. She was a relatively small sailing ship at 215 tons, three-masted and full-rigged.

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