Relics Of The “Bounty”
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A RECENT press report that the Bible of HMS “Bounty” is to be returned to Pitcairn Island, home of the des cendants of the “Bounty” mutineers, led to the discovery that Lieutenant William Bligh’s soup tureen, another “Bounty” relic, was in Suva.
It is the property of Mr. R. M. D.
Towner, of the staff of Cable and Wireless Ltd., and was given to him by Mrs.
Charles Fysh, of Norfolk Island, a direct descendant of the “Bounty” mutineers.
Mr. Towner said that Mrs. Fvsh had the autographed lithograph of Queen Vic toria, the Prince Consort and their family, which was sent by the Queen to the des cendants of the mutineers with an am nesty, and the “title deeds” of Norfolk Island.
Mr. Ray Nobbs, of Norfolk, has the “Bounty’s” barometer, which. Mr. Towner said, is still tapped and read every morn ing.