Search for HMS Bounty captain called off
Posted Nov 2, 2012 06:39:22 AM.
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The U-S Coast Guard has ended its search for the captain of a Nova Scotia-built tall ship that sank off the North Carolina coast during hurricane Sandy.
Crews spent 90 hours searching for Robin Walbridge, 63, using ships, helicopters and large planes before suspending efforts yesterday.
The HMS Bounty was originally built at a shipyard in Lunenburg for the 1962 film “Mutiny on the Bounty” starring Marlon Brando and was featured in other movies.
Crew on the three-masted tall ship, which sank before dawn Monday, abandoned the vessel and 14 were rescued.
One woman died. Claudene Christian, 42, was the great-great-great-great-great grandaughter of Fletcher Christian, the man who took command of the original Bounty, following the famous 1789 mutiny.
Christian was pulled from the sea and hoisted aboard a Coast Guard helicopter on Monday afternoon. She was later pronounced dead at hospital.
