Peter Denton-Cardew of Newfoundland, Hugh Boyd and Roy Boutilier of Dartmouth, John LeBlanc (cook) of Liverpool, John Kendall, Dalton Richards, Ivan Zwicker, Lewis Jennex of Oyster Pond, Ross MacKay (first mate), Ellsworth George Coggins (son of captain), John Kendall of Windsor, and Wayne Dewar of Hantsport (mess boy). Twenty-two of the crew were Nova Scotians and so far identified from media reports are Captain Ellsworth Trask Coggins, Mark Thomson of Halifax, Robert Douglas of the U.S., Dr. Proudly built using original 1780’s ship drawings from the British Admiralty archives and in the traditional manner by more than 120 workers including 80 carpenters over an 8-month period at the Smith and Rhuland shipyard, the three-masted, square-rigged brigantine had been commissioned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for their 1962 film ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ starring Marlon Brando as Fletcher Christian. and departed on 26 October via the Panama Canal for Tahiti, a voyage of 11,000 km with 24 crew members on board including Wayne Dewar of Hantsport. On 27 August 1960 a replica of “HMS Bounty” was launched at Lunenburg N.S.
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