

A theatrical piece of Tall Ship sat at the end of one of the piers in San Fran Bay last week: the HMS Bounty was specially built for the 1962 film, Mutiny of the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard.
Commissioned by MGM, it was modelled on the original Bounty. Its magnificent masthead, the doughty Bethia, came from Captain Bligh's ship.
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