HMS Bounty, a replica of Breadfruit Bligh’s ship was abandoned powerless and sinking off the Carolina coast early today. The ship had been in Chestertown, Maryland over the weekend for our annual Downrigging Weekend, cut short this year by Sandy. The crew were heading South to Florida and probably thought themselves fairly safe as Sandy was already well North of their course. The ship was built for the Brando film “Mutiny on the Bounty” but has appeared in several of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films.
Story is here:
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/29/14775512-helicopter-sent-to-rescue-17-people-who-abandoned-hms-bounty-off-nc-coast?lite
Here’s a shot of the Bounty in better days passing by the head of the creek that I took this July just after the 1812 celebrations in Baltimore.
She was a fine and happy ship, unlike the original, and the crew always welcoming and pleasant, I wish them all safe.
Boadicea's Chariot 
The latest BBC news is that two crew are missing.
Janus: Yes, I am following the story as best I can.
Strikes me the captain was a bit of a wally trying to proceed through a storm like that even if he was well away from the eye. It wasn’t as if he couldn’t have taken refuge in any number of inlets or behind the banks.
Bligh would have done better!
I have to take it you still have electricity! How is your storm surge going? I hear Battery Park is getting a bit soggy.
The rain was so hard here this morning, we are in one of these aerial rivers from Hawaii, that it woke me up.
I reflected on your weather, considered myself very lucky indeed and went back to sleep.
Studied the seismograms of Mt Baker and the subduction zone locally last night with regard to the 7.7 on Queen Charlotte Island, not happy reading. One has a sense of impending doom! Maybe the Mayans are right!!!!
Note to self, lay in more bottles.
Wee note of explanation, the subduction zone is 200 miles offshore but it comes up in a range of mountains before you get to the Cascades proper. Completely different rocks, utterly chaotic in mineralogy and structure. One of them is at the top of our field! One has visions of a 5000′ mountain becoming a 7000′ mountain overnight! (Marginal hyperbole) It is positively vibrating its a wonder you can’t see it!
As of 6.30 am UK time there are 6.5 million without electricity.
Lower Manhattan under water. storm surge topped at nearly 14′ above normal, half the tubes are inundated and nearly all the tunnels are closed. Many fires broken out in homes where flooded electrics have burnt the places down!
A serious mess by any standards, thank heavens they evacuated half the seaboard.
So let us hope LW is safe, dry and just without electricity, I expect it will be quite a while before he is reconnected. Crews from all over the country are already in convoy to go and help out fixing the lines. America is very backwards in their electricity supply only downtown areas and high rises have underground electricity the rest is surface strung. So it will be a week plus for a lot of people to get the lights back on.
I’m shocked see you’re in a subduction zone, Christina! 🙂
The HMS Bounty, a 180-foot sailboat, is shown submerged in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Sandy approximately 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C., Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. Of the 16-person crew, the Coast Guard rescued 14, recovered a woman and is searching for the captain of the vessel. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Tim Kuklewski.
Remarkably I found this on Wiki’s Bounty (1960 ship) page
I was intrigued as to why she was still referred to as ‘HMS’, didn’t get an answer so I assume it was purely to maintain some sort of authenticity.
Terrible news about the loss of life.
Beeb news was a frickin disgrace this morning. Scenes of flood and destruction, 13 dead so far. Homes and businesses destroyed and the vacuous sport tart is worried that they may have to delay the NY marathon!!! Honestly if brains were dynamite that bint couldn’t even blow her nose. Grrrrr.
Morning all. My power went out at 2pm yesterday EDST and has not come back on yet, my guess would be Thursday. I got my generator running last night but had priorities other than an internet connection. Back in business now. 10:00 am Tuesday. Pictures to follow.
Major fires in Queens, Manhattan inundated. Much of Long Island has no power. The NYC underground and regional train system will be down for a week at least. I just received this update from an old friend in New York.
Glad to see you have survived LW, not one of the better days eh?
CO: I’ve had better, wading through four feet of 50 degree water before breakfast today was the crowning glory.
Just to finish up the Bounty story, this is worth a look if you have a few minutes. I would not have a Coastguard job no matter what the pay. The doorman calls out position instructions in FEET, forward five etc. it’s blowing sixty miles an hour and you want five FEET!!