Talk:HMS Pandora

Correction

HMS Pandora (1779) - supposedly it's voyage in pursuit of HMS Bounty gave rise to the expression "bounty-hunting". (according to one contributor) I doubt this very much; the Pandoras were not paid to do this (except what they received as wages for being members of a regular RN ship's crew) Many of the crew happened to have received 'bounty' payments for joining the RN during the so-called "Spanish armament of 1790" (a recruitment and general fleet mobilisation in anticipation of a war against Spain) It just so happened that some of these recruits ended up in the Pandora - they were doing as they had been ordered, not because they hoped to get some financial gain for bringing back the Bounty mutineers to stand trial.

OED characterizes "bounty-hunter" as a North American invention, and doesn't quote a use before 1930. Stan 15:18, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Other Pandoras

There must have been an HMS Pandora between 1779 and 1859, as there is mention of HMS Pandora, Captain James Wood, touching at Pitcairn on July 10, 1849, returning John Buffett from Hawaii and carrying letters offering lands in Tahiti for any Pitcairners who wished to emigrate to Tahiti. This is recorded in the Pitcairn Island Register on the said date. James Galloway (talk) 18:23, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Must be the same vessel mentioned here.Skookum1 (talk) 21:21, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

More details here and here.Skookum1 (talk) 21:23, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Those links are dead, BC Names has moved its URLs, I'll update them; those were probably links to Actaeon Sound and Drury Inlet and others..... HMS Pandora (1859) was sold to become the USS Jeanette, but it doesn't seem like it should be merged with/redirected to that article; or should it? There's nothing on that article about the Pandora except that that was the Jeanettes former name/commission.Skookum1 (talk) 15:18, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

The links above are now Pandora Head, Pandora Peak, and Drury Inlet.Skookum1 (talk) 15:21, 9 May 2014 (UTC)