Key details
- Current boat name
- Elizabeth Bligh
- Boat class
- 7488
- Function
- Service
- Type
Dimensions and specifications
- Length (m / ft)
- 7.01 / 23ft
- Beam (m / ft)
- 2.06 / 6ft 9in
- Leeward
- Keel
- Masts
- Two Wood
- Rig type
- Lug
- Propulsion
- Oar/Sail
Design and build
- Designer
- Admiralty (Replica)
- Date of build
- 1988
- Place of build
- Gosport, Hants
Current status
- Present use
- Sailing
History
ELIZABETH BLIGH is a replica of the ship's launch of HMS Bounty which was sailed by Captain Bligh together with eighteen officers and men some 3600 miles after being cast adrift by mutineers in 1789. She was built for an expedition led by Jasper Shackleton to retrace and mark the bicentenary of the original voyage. The picture shows her leaving Vanuatu in 1989. She is currently located in Weymouth. January 2010