Pandora HMS

Ship Details

Rig

Porcupine-class Frigate

Built

1779

Tonnage

524

Demise

wrecked in Torres Strait on 28/8/1791

Description

HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in May 1779.[1] She is best known as the ship sent in 1790 to search for the Bounty mutineers. The Pandora was partially successful by capturing 14 of the mutineers, but was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef on the return voyage in 1791.[2] The Pandora is considered to be one of the most significant shipwrecks in the Southern Hemisphere.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Pandora_%281779%29 (accessed on 6/7/2018);

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