These relics of HMS Bounty are sheathing nails that were used to fix protective copper sheathing to hull ... The remains of the ship lay undisturbed on the bottom until 1957 when a National ...

John Coleman, from Benfleet in Essex, said he retrieved the large piece of copper sheathing from HMS Bounty ... Mutineers took over the ship in April 1789 and it was burned by them at Pitcairn ...