Whatever became of The Bounty?

Whatever became of The Bounty? Not the original HMS Bounty. We know that was burned and sank at Pitcarin Island by the mutineers. The Brigantine Yankee crew even found its anchor.

Two replica's were later built. One for the movie "Mutiny on the Bounty" starring Marlon Brandon, and other for the Mel Gibson version. Apparently filmmakers modified another ship, "The Lily" for the 1935 Clark Gable version.

It's the one built for the Mel Gibson movie I'm interested in. I had enjoyed the Norton & Hall trilogy of books on the mutiny as a teen. I'd always hoped to visit the Brando Bounty when it was on the US East Coast but never did. It went down in a Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

I did get an opportunity to cruise on the Gibson film's replica when I visited Sydney, Australia in 1996. In the years after, I kept tabs on it. It moved to Hong Kong and was giving tours there.

Then the mystery began.

It disappeared. The company that owned it simply said it was no longer in service. I read where they refused to say if it had sunk, was broken up, sold or what.

The Wikipedia reported :

With no publicity or explanation, HKRI decommissioned The Bounty on 1 August 2017.^[11] The fate of the ship was left undisclosed.

Then in February of 2022, Wikipedia reported, based on this tweet by MisterKwai:

Following this, the ship has been spotted in Phra Samut Chedi, at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River in Thailand. It was rechristened The Bounty (เดอะ บาวน์ตี้).^[12]
Google shows the ship clearly both aerially (dated 2022) and from 'Street View' (dated Oct 2020) from boats travelling up the Chao Phraya River.

I found this Reddit post by MisterKwai who had posted the Tweet. It was in a subreddit on kayaking in Thailand.

The last day of May I asked in Reddit if the Bounty was still there. MisterKwai went and checked for me. It is. He posted this picture two days ago.

Photo by MisterKwai

Some photos of my cruise in Sydney Harbor :

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