Fellow Modelers,
Images of my model of the Bounty’s launch, complete with figures of Bligh and those set adrift with him, can be found at: http://faculty.une.edu/com/jnorton/BountyLaunch/LaunchImages.html
JM Norton
A beautiful and remarkable model. To see that tiny boat with all those people in it rams home, like scarcely anything else could, the incredible feat of Bligh and his crew in sailing it from the mutiny site to Timor.
I’ve watched the various Hollywood versions repeatedly, and I don’t think any of them managed to cram a sufficient number of people into the launch. That probably has a little bit to do with the relative size of eighteenth-century human bodies, but it must have been an exercise in claustrophobia in any case.
Nice job, Prof Norton! You can almost feel the sense of desperation they must have had. Well done!