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-The Journey of the Mayflower
Marge, Bart and Lisa join the puritans on the Mayflower on their trip to America under the leadership of Ned Flandish.  Homer jumps on the ship as well, as he's hiding from the cops.  Marge, a widow, is being courted by Moe, but Homer gets on her good side, so Moe tricks him into drinking along with the rest of the crew. Luckily Homer also saves them by bringing them to the shore, so all ends well.
-About a ship called the Bounty...
Bart and his school friends are the crew of the ship called the Bounty.  The captain, Seymour Skinner, is a terrible leader and abuses them.  They arrive on Tahiti and have a wonderful time, but when they leave, Skinner hasn't changed his ways and there's a mutiny.  Bart takes over control, but accidentally destroys the ship and they end up on the South Pole.
-The Neptune Capsizes
Homer, Marge, Lisa and Bart form the band on a 70's cruise liner called The Neptune, but during their show, the ship capsizes, and is turned completely upside down, but luckily they're saved.  And then the ghost ship The Bounty shows up, still searching for Tahiti

Extra Info:

The Mayflower
The Mayflower was the famous ship that transported the English Separatists, better known as the Pilgrims, from Southampton, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts (which would become the capital of Plymouth Colony), in 1620. There were 102 passengers and a crew of 25-30.

The vessel left England on September 6 (Old Style)/September 16 (New Style), and after a gruelling 66-day journey marked by disease, which claimed two lives, the ship dropped anchor inside the hook tip of Cape Cod (Provincetown Harbor) on November 11/November 21. The Mayflower was originally destined for the mouth of the Hudson River, near present-day New York City, at the northern edge of England's Virginia colony, which itself was established with the 1607 Jamestown Settlement. However, the Mayflower went off course as the winter approached, and remained in Cape Cod Bay. On March 21/28, 1621, all surviving passengers, who had inhabited the ship during the winter, moved ashore at Plymouth, and on April 5/15, the Mayflower, a privately commissioned vessel, returned to England. In 1623, a year after the death of captain Christopher Jones, the Mayflower was most likely dismantled for scrap lumber in Rotherhithe, London.

The Mayflower has a famous place in American history as a symbol of early European colonization of the future US. With their religion oppressed by the English Church and government, the small party of religious Puritan separatists who comprised about half of the passengers on the ship desired a life where they could practice their religion freely. This symbol of religious freedom resonates in US society[citation needed] and the story of the Mayflower is a staple of any American history textbook. Americans whose roots are traceable back to New England often believe themselves to be descended from Mayflower passengers.

The main record for the voyage of the Mayflower and the disposition of the Plymouth Colony comes from William Bradford who was a guiding force and later the governor of the colony.

The Bounty
HMS Bounty (known to historians as HM Armed Vessel Bounty, popularly as HMAV Bounty, and to many simply as "The Bounty"), famous as the scene of the Mutiny on the Bounty on 28 April 1789, was originally a three-masted cargo ship, the Bethia, purchased by the British Admiralty, then modified and commissioned as His Majesty's Armed Vessel the Bounty for a botanical mission to the Pacific Ocean.

Bounty began her career as the collier Bethia, built in 1784 at the Blaydes shipyard near Hull. Later she was purchased by the Royal Navy for £2,600 on 26 May 1787 (JJ Colledge/D Lyon say 23 May), refit, and renamed Bounty. She was a relatively small sailing ship at 215 tons, three-masted and full-rigged. After conversion for the breadfruit expedition, she mounted only four four pounders (2 kg cannon) and ten swivel guns. Thus she was very small in comparison to other three-mast colliers used for similar expeditions: Cook's Endeavour displaced 368 tons and Resolution 462 tons.

For more information, you can always visit The Bounty's wikipedia page

The Neptune
I couldn't find anything about this, as I'm not sure what it's based on.  Please don't hesitate to contact me if you know anything about this.