In the year 1787, Lieutenant William Bligh a young British Naval Officer having most recently served to Captain James Cook on his voyages to the South Pacific, was commissioned by the British Admiralty to undertake a voyage in a small ship: HMS Bounty. The goal of the voyage was to obtain a large number of breadfruit plantings to be taken to the Caribbean where they would be transplanted to provide food for the slaves in those colonies.
Bounty reached Tahiti on October 1788, after ten months in the sea. Bligh and his crew spent five months, collecting and preparing breadfruit plants. They lifted anchor and left on April 4. On April 28, 1789 directed by Masters Mate Fletcher Christian, they led a mutiny. The mutineers captured Bligh and 18 of the loyal crew and they send them adrift in a boat.
This group navigated the 23-foot launch on a 3200-mile voyage to Timor.
Meanwhile the mutineers passed through the islands, but feared that they would be found there. Moving on, they discovered Pitcairn Island. On January 23, 1790 they burned the ship in what is now celebrated as Bounty Day.
In the real Observatory in Greenwich the HMS Bounty chronometer is shown.

 

Specifications of the model:

Technique: Toothpick - handmade

Height: 40 cm

Length: 35 cm

Wide: 10 cm