It was midnight on Sunday, Oct. 28, when Coast Guard pilot Wes McIntosh established radio contact with the HMS Bounty. The three-masted, square-rigged ship was 100 miles off the tip of Cape ...

The Bounty, built in 1960 on an 18th-century design, was powered by two 375 hp John Deere diesel engines, according to specifications from the ship’s owner, HMS Bounty Organization LLC. VIDEOS ...

The captain of the HMS Bounty and crewmate Claudene Christian died solely because he made undeniably wrong decisions for inexcusable reasons. That’s what the National Transportation Safety Board ...

CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. (CNN) — The body of missing crew member Claudene Christian, 42, was found hours after 14 of her HMS Bounty shipmates were plucked from lifeboats riding 18-foot waves. The ...

The HMS Bounty, a 180-foot sailboat, is submerged in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Sandy approximately 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C., on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012.

The HMS Bounty, a 180-foot sailboat, is shown submerged in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Sandy approximately 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C., Monday, Oct. 29, 2012.

A crewman of the replica tall ship HMS Bounty is aided by the U.S. Coast Guard after being rescued from the Atlantic Ocean, at the Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, North Carolina, October ...

The Bounty, a 180-foot replica of an 18th century sailing ship that was built for the film "Mutiny on the Bounty," was 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C., when the owner called saying she'd lost ...

A replica 18th-century sailing ship that sank off North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy had a decaying frame with an undetermined amount of rot in it before leaving port, a Maine shipyard worker ...

Tensions aboard the HMS Bounty had simmered for months, but it was after leaving paradise that the voyage turned toxic. Captain Bligh’s explosive temper, Fletcher Christian’s simmering resentment, and ...