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 ...

They cast Bligh and his loyalists adrift in an open boat and sailed the Bounty to Pitcairn Island. The ship later sank with four four-pounder guns which were subsequently recovered. Three of them ...

They cast Bligh and his loyalists adrift in an open boat and sailed the Bounty to Pitcairn Island. Many of the mutineers settled on Pitcairn and on nearby Norfolk Island. The Bounty eventually ...

Ducie and Oeno - the Pitcairn Islands are scattered over several hundred miles of ocean. Its inhabitants are mostly descendants of HMS Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian companions who settled ...

Intrepid wreck detectives track down a range ... the Pandora came within two days sailing of Pitcairn Island where the Bounty mutineers had settled. However the mutineers fate was only revealed ...

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 ...

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 verdigris ...