Hurricane Sandy, the sailing ship Bounty, and a courageous rescue at sea
The 1960's replica of the famous HMS Bounty, an eighteenth century tall sailing ship, sailed into Superstorm Sandy in 2012 and sank. For seventeen years Captain Robin Walbridge led the Bounty. Experienced and respected, he thought he could sail around the storm but his decision doomed the ship and the crew. The captain and one crew member, Claudine Christian, died. Claudine was a descendent of Fletcher Christian, who led the mutiny on the real ship, the British HMS Bounty. The rest of the crew was rescued from the sea in a dangerous mission by the Coast Guard in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds.
