http://wyrk.com Today's Country And Your All-Time Favorites Sat, 18 May 2013 22:43:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://wyrk.com/amazing-coast-guard-rescue-during-hurricane-sandy-video/ http://wyrk.com/amazing-coast-guard-rescue-during-hurricane-sandy-video/#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2012 03:37:43 +0000 Craig Matthews http://961joyfm.com/?p=133705 Perhaps you saw a few seconds of the amazing U.S. Coast Guard rescue of the crew of the HMS Bounty on the news. Here is a much longer version right from the Coast Guard of the daring rescue of the ship's crew during Hurricane Sandy.

]]> http://wyrk.com/amazing-coast-guard-rescue-during-hurricane-sandy-video/feed/ 0 HMS Bounty (Facebook Photo) http://wyrk.com/mutiny-on-the-bounty-dales-daily-data/ http://wyrk.com/mutiny-on-the-bounty-dales-daily-data/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:00:19 +0000 Dale Mussen http://wyrk.com/?p=16145 Today is the date in 1789 that Fletcher Christian led a mutiny of His Majesty’s Ship Bounty where Captain William Bligh and 18 of his loyal men were set adrift in a small open boat.  The Bounty had left England nearly a year and a half before with Tahiti as its destination where it was to pick up a load of breadfruit trees.  After 10 months at sea the Bounty finally arrived in Tahiti where the crew stayed for five months enjoying the climate, the hospitality and the beautiful women.  When it was time to leave, getting back to work was just too much for many of the crew who enjoyed their stay maybe a little too much.  Plus Bligh was a miserable man to work for.  He was a tyrant, belittling his men for the smallest mistake and after 3 weeks at sea some of the men just couldn’t take any more.  Christian along with 25 other officers and men took control of the ship.

]]> http://wyrk.com/mutiny-on-the-bounty-dales-daily-data/feed/ 0 An exact replica of the HMS Bounty was built by MGM Studios in 1935 for filming of the movie "Mutiny On The Bounty" (Getty Images)