Editing Mutiny on the Bounty (section)

=== Discovery ===
After Young succumbed to [[asthma]] in 1800, Adams took responsibility for the education and well-being of the nine remaining women and nineteen children. Using the [[Bounty Bible|ship's Bible]] from ''Bounty'', he taught literacy and Christianity, and kept peace on the island.{{sfn|Stanley|2004|pp=288–296}} This was the situation in February 1808, when the American sealer ''Topaz'' came unexpectedly upon Pitcairn, landed, and discovered the by-then thriving community.{{sfn|Alexander|2003|pp=347–348}}{{sfn|Young|1894|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ph5EAQAAMAAJ&dq=Mayhew+Folger++son&pg=PA34 36–40]}} Adams gave ''Bounty''{{'}}s [[Azimuth compass]] and [[Marine chronometer]] to ''Topaz''{{'}}s captain, [[Mayhew Folger]]. News of the discovery did not reach Britain until 1810, when it was overlooked by an Admiralty preoccupied by [[Napoleonic Wars|war with France]].

In 1814, two British warships, [[HMS Briton (1812)|HMS ''Briton'']] and HMS ''Tagus'', chanced upon Pitcairn. Among those who greeted them were Thursday October Christian and George Young (Edward Young's son).{{sfn|Alexander|2003|pp=351–352}} The captains, [[Thomas Staines|Sir Thomas Staines]] and Philip Pipon, reported that Christian's son displayed "in his benevolent countenance, all the features of an honest English face".{{sfn|Barrow|1831|pp=285–289}} On shore they found a population of 46–mainly young islanders led by Adams,{{sfn|Barrow|1831|pp=285–289}} upon whom the islanders' welfare was wholly dependent, according to the captains' report.{{sfn|Alexander|2003|p=355}} After receiving Staines and Pipon's report, the Admiralty decided to take no action.

In the following years, many ships called at Pitcairn Island and heard Adams' various stories of the foundation of the Pitcairn settlement.{{sfn|Alexander|2003|p=355}} Adams died in 1829, honoured as the founder and father of a community that became celebrated over the next century as an exemplar of [[Victorian period|Victorian]] morality.{{sfn|Government of Pitcairn|2000}} 

Explorer [[Luis Marden]] rediscovered the remains of ''Bounty'' in January 1957.<ref>Pitcairn Miscellany https/www.miscellany.pn</ref> After spotting remains of the rudder<ref name="life">
{{cite magazine
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zFUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA38
|title=The 'Bounty's' Last Relics
|magazine=[[Life (magazine)|Life]]
|date=10 February 1958
|volume=44
|number=6
|access-date=2012-10-31
|pages=38–41
}}</ref> (which had been found in 1933 by Parkin Christian, and is still displayed in the [[Fiji Museum]] in [[Suva]]) he persuaded his editors and writers to let him dive off Pitcairn Island. After several days of dangerous diving, Marden found the remains of the ship: a rudder pin, nails, a ships boat oarlock, fittings and a ''Bounty'' anchor that he raised.<ref name="life" /><ref>
{{cite web
 |url         = http://home.comcast.net/~maclark661/Pitcairn/Slide25.htm
 |title       = Bounty anchor at the town square
 |access-date  = 2012-10-31
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20121026041631/http://home.comcast.net/~maclark661/Pitcairn/Slide25.htm
 |archive-date = 26 October 2012}}</ref> Later in life, Marden wore [[cuff links]] made of nails from ''Bounty''. He also dived to the wreck of ''Pandora'' and left a ''Bounty'' nail with that vessel. Some of the ''Bounty''{{'}}s remains, such as the [[Sailing ballast|ballast stones]], are still partially visible in the waters of Bounty Bay. The last of ''Bounty''{{'}}s four-pounder cannon was recovered in 1998 by an archaeological team from [[James Cook University]] and was sent to the Queensland Museum in [[Townsville, Queensland]], Australia, to be stabilised through lengthy conservation treatment via [[electrolysis]] over a period of nearly forty months. The gun was subsequently returned to Pitcairn Island, where it has been placed on display in a new community hall.

Over the years, many recovered ''Bounty'' artefacts have been sold by islanders as souvenirs; in 1999, the Pitcairn Project was established by a consortium of Australian academic and historical bodies to survey and document all the remaining material, as part of a detailed study of the settlement's development.{{sfn|Erskine|1999}}

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File:BOUNTY RUDDER FROM THE FIJI MUSEUM. SUVA, FIJI ISLANDS.jpg|Parts of ''Bounty''{{'}}s rudder, recovered from Pitcairn Island and preserved in a Fiji museum
File:HMAS "Bounty" bell - panoramio.jpg|HMAS ''Bounty'' bell
File:Ballast Iron from HMAS "Bounty" - panoramio.jpg|HMAS ''Bounty'' ballast bar
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