The gun fetched more than expected when it went under the hammer in Dumfries A naval gun believed to be from HMS Bounty has sold for £17,000 at auction in Dumfries. The item attracted ...

It bears a plaque inscribed, ‘HMS Bounty aka HM Armed Vessel Bounty 1787-1790 ... On May 20, 1973, he wrote, ‘You can still see a cannon embedded in the coral, it will probably stay there forever.

These relics of HMS Bounty are sheathing nails that were used to fix protective copper sheathing to hull. After Fletcher Christian and the mutineers arrived at Pitcairn they stripped the Bounty of ...

John Coleman, from Benfleet in Essex, said he retrieved the large piece of copper sheathing from HMS Bounty in the Pitcairn Islands in 1973. He displayed the impressive find - patinated with ...