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RRS Discover
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The RRs Discover was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in Britain.Designed for Antartctic reseach,she was launched in 1901.Her first mission was the British National Antarctic Expendition,carrying Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton on their first,successful journey to the Antarctic,known as the Discovery Expedition.She is now the centerpiece of visitor attraction in her home ,Dundee,Scotland.
History
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On March 16,1900,in the context of signifcant donation to the approaching expedition by Llewellyn Wood Longstaff and the British government,construction on the RRS Discovery begin in Dundee,Scotland by the Dundee Shipbuilder Company.She was launched into the Firth of Tay on May 21,1901 by Lady Joy Mary Minna Markham ,the wife of Sir Clemet Robert Markham,President of the Royal Geographic Society.
RRS Discovery had a coal-fired auxiliarty steam engines,but had to rely primary on sail because the coal bunkers did not have sufficent capacity to take the ship on long voyages.She was rigged as a Barque Class.According to Sir Ernest Henry Shacklton,the ship was a bad sailer,and carried too much sail aft and not enough foward;while Captain Robert Falcon Scott worried that the design of the ship's hull was unsuitable for work in pack ice.The ship had a massively built wooden hull designed to withstand being frozen into ice.The propeller and rudder could be hoisted out of the way to provent ice damage.Irion-shod bows were severely raked so that when ramming the ice they would ride up over the margin and crush the ice with deadweight.The RRS Discovery rolled badly in the open seawhere the flat shallow hull,built with no protuberances to work in the ice,provided minmal stabilty in heavy seas.The hull was made from five different types of wood to better withstand the compression of the icepack.The keel was made from the truck od a single eucalyptus tree.Ballast in the hull was created from old cannon balls.[RRS Discovery at St.Katherines Dock London,England in 1980 an discussion with the captain of the vessel.]Ship was rigged for scientific studies.The metallic parts of the forward part of the ship was made from bronze(non-metallic) to include the crew bed rails and anchor links.
British National Antarctic Expedition
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Five months after setting sail on August 6,1901 from the Isle of Wight,England,she sighted the Antarctic coastline on January 8,1902.During the first month Captain Robert Falcon Scott began charting the coastline.Then in preparation for the winter,he weighed anchor in McMurdo Sound,Antarctica.The ship would remain there,locked in ice,for the next two years;the Expedition had expected to spend the winter there and move on in the spring.Despite this,the Expedition was able to determine that Antarctic was indeed a continent,and they were able to relocate the Southern Magnetic Pole.Captain Robert Falcon Scott,Sir Ernest Henry Shacklton,and Edward Adrian Wilson also achived a Further South of 82 degrees 18 minutes.The ship was wventually freed on Febuary 16,1904 by use of controlled explosive which allowed the ice to move away by butting qand shunting,thus assisting in the breakup of the ice.RRS Discovery finally sailed for home,arriving in Spithead is an area of the Solent and a roadstead of Gilkiker Point in Hampshire,England on September 10,1904.
Cargo Vessel
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The British National Antarctic Expedition was acclaimed upon its return but was also in serious financial trouble,and so in 1905,RRS Discovery was sold to the Hudson's Bay Company ,who used RRS Discovery as a cargo vessel between London ,England and Hudson Bay ,Anada until the First World War,when RRS Discovery began carrying munitions to Russia.One of RRS Discovery's the mast was removed during RRS Discovery days as a cargo vessel with the Hudson's Bay Compay to make room for more cargo.In 1916,she was loaned to the British Government to rescue Sir Ernest Henry Shacklton's party marooned on Elephant Island of the cast of Antarctic,but thery were rescued before RRS Discovery arrived.In 1917,RRS Discovery carried supples to the White Army of Russia during the Russian Civil War.At the end of the hostilities RRS Discovery was charted by various companies for work in the Atlantic Ocean,but outdated and outclassed by more modern merchant vessels RRS Discovery was soon laid up,spending the early 1920s as the headquaterof the 16th Stepney Districk of London,England Sea Scouts.
Discovery Investigations
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In 1923 RRS Discovery fortunes were revived when the Crown Agents for the Colonies purchased RRS Discovery for further reseach work in the Antarctic.Reregistered to Stanley in the Falkland Islands and designated as a Royal Reseach Ship,RRS Discovery underwent a $183,879 refit before sailing in October 1925 for the South Seas to chart the migration patterns of whale stocks as part of the Discovery Investigations.RRS Discovery role continued when the British Government lent her to BANZRE,the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Resarch Expedition.RRS Discovery served in this duty from 1929 until 1931.
Boy Scouts
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Returning to Great Britain,RRS Discovery research days now over,RRS Discovery was laid up until 1936 when RRS Discovery was presented to the Boy Scouts Association of the United Kingdom as a static training ship for Sea Scouts in London,England.During the war RRS Discovery engines and boilers were removed for scrap to help the war effort.Too coastly for the Boy Souts Association of the United Kingdom to maintain RRS Discovery was transferred to the Royal Navy the Admiralty in 1955 for use as a drill ship for the Royal Navy Auxiliary Reserve.As the years passed RRS Discovery condition deteriorated and when no longer of use to the Royal Navy,RRS Discovery was in danger of being scapped.Saved from the breakers yard by the Maritimr Trust,into whose care RRS Discovery passed in 1979,RRS Discovery futher was secured.Berthed on the River Thames and open to the public,the trust spent some 4806,648.00 on essential restoration until RRS Discovery was passed into the ownership of the Dundee Heritage Trust in 1985.
Discovery Point Dundee
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On March 28,1986,RRS Discovery left London,Endland aboard the cargo ship Happy nMariner to make RRS Discover journy home to the city built RRS Discovery.RRS Discovery arrived on the River Tay on April 3,1986 to a tumultuous welcome.Moved to a custom built dock in 1992.RRS Discovery is now the centerpiece of Dundee's visitor attraction Discovery Point.RRS Discovery is displayed in a purpose-built dock,in configuration as near as possible to RRS Discovery 1924 state,when RRS Discovery was refited in the Vosper Yard at Portsmouth,England.RRS Discovery is listed as part of the National Historic Fleet,Core Collection>Discovery Point is a fully accredited museum and has won numerous national awards,well as being a 5 star rated tourst attraction with Vist Scotland.RRS Discovery and the polar collections were named as a Recognised collection of National Significance.
Since the 1990s,Discovery Point Museum has concentrated on interpreting vessel on all of RRS Discovery voyages,with personal items from the shp's crew as well as information on RRS Discovery scientific activities.Items ranged from the games played by the crew on RRS Discovery first expedition to examples of sea fauna.Star objects on display including Captain Robert Falcon Sott's rifle and pipe.RRS Discovery three main voyages,the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901--1904),the Discovery Oceanographic Expedition (1925--1927)and the BANZARE British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929--1931)and all explored in the museum through film and photographic evidence whith artefacts from each era represented.The museum also holds other pieces from Captain Robert Falcon Scott's subsequent Terraova Expedition and Sir Ernest Henry Shacklton's Endurance expedition.
Dundee market itself with the strip-line One City,Many Discoveries,in honour of RRS Discovery,the research work of the two univerties in the city,the Ninewells teaching hospital and other creative activities and innovation that take place in the vibrant city.
The ship also features on the crest of the coat of arms of the British Antarctic Territory.
Subsequent Ships
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There have been ntwo subsequnent Royal Research Ships named RRS Discovery,RRS Discovery II (1929) and the current RRS Discovery.The present ship is due to replace by a further RRS Discovery,which to be built.
The spaceship Discovery One in Sir Arthur Charles Clarke's book 2001:A Space Odyssey was named by Sir Arthur Charles Clarke after RRS Discovery,Sir Arthur Charles Clarke used to eat his lunch aboard RRS Discovery as RRS Discovery was moored near the office where he worked in London,England.According to Sir Arthur Charles Clarke,he was unaware that RRS Discovery was lanched in 1901,so that fact RRS Discovery was celebrating RRS Discovery centenary in the year of his book is a coincidence.
The Space Shuttle Discovery is named for RRS Discovery
1301 RRS Discovery in the City of Dundee copy
RRS Discover
--------------------
The RRs Discover was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in Britain.Designed for Antartctic reseach,she was launched in 1901.Her first mission was the British National Antarctic Expendition,carrying Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton on their first,successful journey to the Antarctic,known as the Discovery Expedition.She is now the centerpiece of visitor attraction in her home ,Dundee,Scotland.
History
----------
On March 16,1900,in the context of signifcant donation to the approaching expedition by Llewellyn Wood Longstaff and the British government,construction on the RRS Discovery begin in Dundee,Scotland by the Dundee Shipbuilder Company.She was launched into the Firth of Tay on May 21,1901 by Lady Joy Mary Minna Markham ,the wife of Sir Clemet Robert Markham,President of the Royal Geographic Society.
RRS Discovery had a coal-fired auxiliarty steam engines,but had to rely primary on sail because the coal bunkers did not have sufficent capacity to take the ship on long voyages.She was rigged as a Barque Class.According to Sir Ernest Henry Shacklton,the ship was a bad sailer,and carried too much sail aft and not enough foward;while Captain Robert Falcon Scott worried that the design of the ship's hull was unsuitable for work in pack ice.The ship had a massively built wooden hull designed to withstand being frozen into ice.The propeller and rudder could be hoisted out of the way to provent ice damage.Irion-shod bows were severely raked so that when ramming the ice they would ride up over the margin and crush the ice with deadweight.The RRS Discovery rolled badly in the open seawhere the flat shallow hull,built with no protuberances to work in the ice,provided minmal stabilty in heavy seas.The hull was made from five different types of wood to better withstand the compression of the icepack.The keel was made from the truck od a single eucalyptus tree.Ballast in the hull was created from old cannon balls.[RRS Discovery at St.Katherines Dock London,England in 1980 an discussion with the captain of the vessel.]Ship was rigged for scientific studies.The metallic parts of the forward part of the ship was made from bronze(non-metallic) to include the crew bed rails and anchor links.
British National Antarctic Expedition
------------------------------------------------
Five months after setting sail on August 6,1901 from the Isle of Wight,England,she sighted the Antarctic coastline on January 8,1902.During the first month Captain Robert Falcon Scott began charting the coastline.Then in preparation for the winter,he weighed anchor in McMurdo Sound,Antarctica.The ship would remain there,locked in ice,for the next two years;the Expedition had expected to spend the winter there and move on in the spring.Despite this,the Expedition was able to determine that Antarctic was indeed a continent,and they were able to relocate the Southern Magnetic Pole.Captain Robert Falcon Scott,Sir Ernest Henry Shacklton,and Edward Adrian Wilson also achived a Further South of 82 degrees 18 minutes.The ship was wventually freed on Febuary 16,1904 by use of controlled explosive which allowed the ice to move away by butting qand shunting,thus assisting in the breakup of the ice.RRS Discovery finally sailed for home,arriving in Spithead is an area of the Solent and a roadstead of Gilkiker Point in Hampshire,England on September 10,1904.
Cargo Vessel
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The British National Antarctic Expedition was acclaimed upon its return but was also in serious financial trouble,and so in 1905,RRS Discovery was sold to the Hudson's Bay Company ,who used RRS Discovery as a cargo vessel between London ,England and Hudson Bay ,Anada until the First World War,when RRS Discovery began carrying munitions to Russia.One of RRS Discovery's the mast was removed during RRS Discovery days as a cargo vessel with the Hudson's Bay Compay to make room for more cargo.In 1916,she was loaned to the British Government to rescue Sir Ernest Henry Shacklton's party marooned on Elephant Island of the cast of Antarctic,but thery were rescued before RRS Discovery arrived.In 1917,RRS Discovery carried supples to the White Army of Russia during the Russian Civil War.At the end of the hostilities RRS Discovery was charted by various companies for work in the Atlantic Ocean,but outdated and outclassed by more modern merchant vessels RRS Discovery was soon laid up,spending the early 1920s as the headquaterof the 16th Stepney Districk of London,England Sea Scouts.
Discovery Investigations
----------------------------------
In 1923 RRS Discovery fortunes were revived when the Crown Agents for the Colonies purchased RRS Discovery for further reseach work in the Antarctic.Reregistered to Stanley in the Falkland Islands and designated as a Royal Reseach Ship,RRS Discovery underwent a $183,879 refit before sailing in October 1925 for the South Seas to chart the migration patterns of whale stocks as part of the Discovery Investigations.RRS Discovery role continued when the British Government lent her to BANZRE,the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Resarch Expedition.RRS Discovery served in this duty from 1929 until 1931.
Boy Scouts
----------------
Returning to Great Britain,RRS Discovery research days now over,RRS Discovery was laid up until 1936 when RRS Discovery was presented to the Boy Scouts Association of the United Kingdom as a static training ship for Sea Scouts in London,England.During the war RRS Discovery engines and boilers were removed for scrap to help the war effort.Too coastly for the Boy Souts Association of the United Kingdom to maintain RRS Discovery was transferred to the Royal Navy the Admiralty in 1955 for use as a drill ship for the Royal Navy Auxiliary Reserve.As the years passed RRS Discovery condition deteriorated and when no longer of use to the Royal Navy,RRS Discovery was in danger of being scapped.Saved from the breakers yard by the Maritimr Trust,into whose care RRS Discovery passed in 1979,RRS Discovery futher was secured.Berthed on the River Thames and open to the public,the trust spent some 4806,648.00 on essential restoration until RRS Discovery was passed into the ownership of the Dundee Heritage Trust in 1985.
Discovery Point Dundee
---------------------------------
On March 28,1986,RRS Discovery left London,Endland aboard the cargo ship Happy nMariner to make RRS Discover journy home to the city built RRS Discovery.RRS Discovery arrived on the River Tay on April 3,1986 to a tumultuous welcome.Moved to a custom built dock in 1992.RRS Discovery is now the centerpiece of Dundee's visitor attraction Discovery Point.RRS Discovery is displayed in a purpose-built dock,in configuration as near as possible to RRS Discovery 1924 state,when RRS Discovery was refited in the Vosper Yard at Portsmouth,England.RRS Discovery is listed as part of the National Historic Fleet,Core Collection>Discovery Point is a fully accredited museum and has won numerous national awards,well as being a 5 star rated tourst attraction with Vist Scotland.RRS Discovery and the polar collections were named as a Recognised collection of National Significance.
Since the 1990s,Discovery Point Museum has concentrated on interpreting vessel on all of RRS Discovery voyages,with personal items from the shp's crew as well as information on RRS Discovery scientific activities.Items ranged from the games played by the crew on RRS Discovery first expedition to examples of sea fauna.Star objects on display including Captain Robert Falcon Sott's rifle and pipe.RRS Discovery three main voyages,the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901--1904),the Discovery Oceanographic Expedition (1925--1927)and the BANZARE British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929--1931)and all explored in the museum through film and photographic evidence whith artefacts from each era represented.The museum also holds other pieces from Captain Robert Falcon Scott's subsequent Terraova Expedition and Sir Ernest Henry Shacklton's Endurance expedition.
Dundee market itself with the strip-line One City,Many Discoveries,in honour of RRS Discovery,the research work of the two univerties in the city,the Ninewells teaching hospital and other creative activities and innovation that take place in the vibrant city.
The ship also features on the crest of the coat of arms of the British Antarctic Territory.
Subsequent Ships
-------------------------
There have been ntwo subsequnent Royal Research Ships named RRS Discovery,RRS Discovery II (1929) and the current RRS Discovery.The present ship is due to replace by a further RRS Discovery,which to be built.
The spaceship Discovery One in Sir Arthur Charles Clarke's book 2001:A Space Odyssey was named by Sir Arthur Charles Clarke after RRS Discovery,Sir Arthur Charles Clarke used to eat his lunch aboard RRS Discovery as RRS Discovery was moored near the office where he worked in London,England.According to Sir Arthur Charles Clarke,he was unaware that RRS Discovery was lanched in 1901,so that fact RRS Discovery was celebrating RRS Discovery centenary in the year of his book is a coincidence.
The Space Shuttle Discovery is named for RRS Discovery