<p><strong>The masts of the <a href="http://www.tallshipbounty.org/">H.M.S. <em>Bounty</em></a> reach skyward as waves stirred by <a href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at3+shtml/153841.shtml?gm_psurge">Hurricane Sandy</a> pull the tall ship's hull to the seafloor on Monday. The sailing vessel—a replica of the 18th-century ship of the same name—was off <a href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/united-states/north-carolina-guide/">North Carolina</a> when the crew radioed in a distress call on Sunday, a day before Sandy's landfall near <a href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/city-guides/new-york-new-york/">New York City</a>. </strong></p><p>Fourteen of the ship's 16-member crew are reportedly in good condition after a <a href="http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/10/coast-guard-rescues-14-during-hurricane-sandy/">U.S. Coast Guard helicopter rescue</a> Monday. Two others, <a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/10/claudene_christian_death_hms_bounty_sandy.php">Claudene Christian</a> and <a href="http://www.tallshipbounty.org/the-ship/RobinWalbridge.php">Capt. Robin Walbridge</a>, were swept overboard when the ship keeled over in 18-foot (5.5-meter) waves.</p><p>Several hours after the initial rescue, the Coast Guard found Christian's unresponsive body floating in the water. Walbridge is still unaccounted for.</p><p>Built in 1960 for the 1962 film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056264/"><em>Mutiny on the Bounty</em></a>, the H.M.S. <em>Bounty</em> replica was also featured in a <em>Pirates of the Caribbean</em> movie.</p><p>The original <em>Bounty</em> had become famous, or rather infamous, in 1789, after half its crew mutinied and abandoned the captain and his followers in a boat at sea. One of those mutineers, Fletcher Christian, was a great-great-great-great-grandfather of Claudene Christian, who was pronounced dead at a hospital Monday, according to the Associated Press.</p><p>—Ker Than</p>