Today, the descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty still live on Pitcairn Island. The Royal Navy was ... lying in wait and attacked early the next day. Blackbeard fought furiously as he was ...

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 ...

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.

With no airport and only reachable by a two-day boat trip ... and a baby girl), settled on Pitcairn Island and set fire to the Bounty. The ship is still visible underwater in Bounty Bay.