Two crew missing from abandoned HMS Bounty
Two people from a Tall Ship caught in Hurricane Sandy are missing after the crew was forced to abandon it amid fierce winds and high seas.
US Coast Guard helicopters rescued 14 others from lifeboats launched after HMS Bounty ran into trouble off North Carolina.
The search is continuing for the remaining two crew members.
The director of the HMS Bounty Organisation, Tracie Simonin, said the ship left Connecticut last week for Florida.
She said the crew had been in constant contact with the National Hurricane Centre and tried to go around the storm.
The ship is a replica of the one made famous in the 1960 film “Mutiny on the Bounty,” and it was used in that film.
It was also used in the film “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.”
