Lily was designed by the shipyard Dickie Brothers in San Francisco and built in 1882 for the shipping company J. C. Hawley.

[6] It appears that this business, including liquor transport, was not all legal; Captain All lost the vessel to the state of Canada.

Amongst others, she appeared in the movies The Single Standard,[8] a silent film with Greta Garbo, and The Ship from Shanghai,[9] still in schooner rig.

[13] For film shoots at the original locations, Lily/Bounty sailed to Tahiti and back, together with the second ship of the production, Nanuk, which represented the historic frigate HMS Pandora.

[14] Only in 1946, there is a report stating that her "film career" came to an end:[15] In the last three months, anchored off Cabrillo beach, the schooner Lily, for that is her true name, has had some of the Hollywood gingerbread removed and her original schooner rig restored.Several photos and sketches of Lily can be found in JaySea's blog The First Bounty Replica.