The Ship HSM Bounty Flounders

[Balac]

We received a distress call for Bounty at 1830 Sunday evening that the Ship lost power and the pumps were unable to keep up with the dewatering. At that time we immediately contacted the USCG for assistance. A C130 was sent to there position approximately 90 miles SE of Cape Hatteras. At 0430 today the Captain ordered all hands to abandon ship. There are 17 Crew on board and at this moment all crew are accounted for and are in Life rafts.

The first USCG helicopter has reached the ship and is in the process of rescuing them.Bounty is currently still floating upright and intact.

I loved that old boat---now it is unmanned and floating with water in it's bilge in the middle of a hurricane. I wish her well but am prepared for the worst. No more Pirates in the Caribbean.

 

[JoynersHotPeppers]

Glad everyone is safe, that is the Graveyard of the Atlantic for a reason.

 

[thegreenman]

man i hope someone rescues that ship, she's a beauty.

 

[Scovie]

I hate to sound stupid but,

What the Samhale were they doing out there?

I'm glad everyone is accounted for and safe.

 

[queequeg152]

Washington post says it sank? too bad it looked like a neat ship.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/tall-ship-hms-bounty-sinks-off-nc-coast-two-still-missing/2012/10/29/d276daf8-21d8-11e2-8448-81b1ce7d6978_story.html

 

[RocketMan]

Scovie, according to NBC News they were inroute to St Petersburg, FL for a showing and then to their winter port in Galveston, TX. They were trying to skirt the storm but were caught in 18 foot seas. As of 1045 14 had been located and transpoprted by helocopter to Air Station Elizabeth City in North Carolina. The Coast Guard are still searching for the remaining 2 crewmen. Gods Speed Gentleman, our prayers are with you.

 

[3/5King]

I feel so uninformed...although it probably has to do with the fact that I don't watch the news nor do I read it on the internet. I will send out a prayer for the men that are lost as to return safely. A boat can be replaced...

 

[Balac]

The Bounty is gone; long live the spirit of the mariners.

2 souls lost; the captain was an idiot---that fellow should have been marooned on a spit of land and sailed back to a safe berth. OH well it is done now.

Just like the curtain – preparing the stage;
Something is gone;
Never to be reborn;
Such things really meant to be;
The HMS Bounty is lost at sea.