Bounty Relic

Recovered from Sea Bottom

WRITING to a Geelong friend, Mrs.

Young, a resident of Pitcairn Island, stated that, some three weeks be fore writing, the men of the island were out fishing. One of the men, with the aid of glasses, was able to discern on the bottom of the sea the rudder of the ship Bounty.

The men secured a long rope and grap pling irons. They first recovered the gudgeon and pintle with copper and brass band around, and then recovered the rudder, which had been on the bed of the sea for 143 years—ever since the Bounty was scuttled and burned by the mutineers.

The recovery of the rudder had created much interest on the island.