# HMS Bounty ship sunk by Sandy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 29, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hms-bounty-ship-sunk-by-sandy/639243 "2012-10-29T18:34:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hms-bounty-ship-sunk-by-sandy/639243/1 "2012-10-29T18:34:49Z")
Two crew members missing. > **[Sandy claims 'Bounty' off North Carolina | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2012/10/29/us/sandy-bounty-ship/index.html)** > > A survival drama involving a crippled ship and its crew plays off North Carolina’s Outer Banks as Hurricane Sandy barrels up the Atlantic. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hms-bounty-ship-sunk-by-sandy/639243/2 "2012-10-29T18:45:03Z")
My best wishes go out for the missing crewmen, but what in the Seven Hells were they doing out there in the path of a hurricane in the first place? Don’t these people ever watch The Weather Channel? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hms-bounty-ship-sunk-by-sandy/639243/3 "2012-10-29T19:08:03Z")
They were headed toward Florida and tried to go further out to sea. I got a chance to go aboard a few years ago. It is not a very big ship. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hms-bounty-ship-sunk-by-sandy/639243/4 "2012-10-29T19:49:28Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > They were headed toward Florida and tried to go further out to sea. I’m sorry for the missing people, but this doesn’t make what they were doing any less dumb. Sandy was widely expected to travel right up the East Coast, though the area this ship was sailing in. Why did these guys risk their lives to save what, at the end of the day, is really just an old movie prop? It’s sad. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hms-bounty-ship-sunk-by-sandy/639243/5 "2012-10-29T23:28:27Z")
Moved Cafe Society --\> MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hms-bounty-ship-sunk-by-sandy/639243/6 "2012-10-30T21:16:58Z")
A related thread in the “General Questions” forum which may be of interest: [Was sailing the HMS Bounty through this storm as stupid as it seems to a layman? - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=670410). ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hms-bounty-ship-sunk-by-sandy/639243/7 "2012-10-30T21:54:18Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > My best wishes go out for the missing crewmen, but what in the Seven Hells were they doing out there in the path of a hurricane in the first place? Don’t these people ever watch The Weather Channel? There was a mutiny.