Local Resident Remembers The Bounty

The tall ship HMS Bounty is no more. The crew members abandoned ship after they were caught in the middle of  Hurricane Sandy  off the coast of North Carolina.  At last word 14 crew members were rescued, but 2 are reported missing.    Thunder Bay's Rochelle Smith sailed with the Bounty over the summer as a volunteer and she says she's in shock and says it's a sad day in the tall ship community.  Smith says the captain has sailed in hurricanes before and may have believed he it was safer at sea rather than at port.   Thousands of local residents got a chance to board the Bounty when it visited our port in 2010.