A British Overseas Territory lies in the middle of the South Pacific, midway between New Zealand and South America and is home to just 50 people.
The great brass bell across from the Assembly Hall on Pitcairn Island clanged ... their longboats in the crescent of Bounty Bay. The visitor, guided by the island’s blinker and its own ...
The lot includes Mr Coleman’s handwritten 1973-74 Pitcairn Island logs ... Somehow they survived a 47-day journey across the Pacific to Timor.” British merchant ship HMS Bounty was purchased by the ...
Then-RAF chief technician John Coleman, from Benfleet, initially salvaged the 237-year-old relic from the wreckage of the HMS Bounty at Pitcairn Island in 1973. He brought it back to England ...
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 ...