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    RRS Discovery is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built in Dundee, Scotland for Antarctic research. Launched in 1901, she was the last traditional...
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  • RRS Discovery is a wooden three-masted British ship launched in 1901, and is most associated with the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic led by Robert...
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    built in Aberdeen in 1962 and named after Robert Falcon Scott's 1901 ship, RRS Discovery. Until 2006, she was the largest general purpose oceanographic...
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    RRS Discovery is a Royal Research Ship operated by the Natural Environment Research Council. The ship is the third such vessel to be built and named for...
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  • RRS Discovery II was a British Royal Research Ship which, during her operational lifetime of about 30 years, carried out considerable hydrographical and...
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  • "RRS" - Royal Research Ship. Sir David Attenborough James Cook Discovery RRS Discovery (1901) RRS William Scoresby (1926) RRS Discovery II (1929) RRS Shackleton...
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  • Expedition to the Antarctic in 1901, and was sold in 1905. She was re-designated RRS (Royal Research Ship) Discovery in 1923, repurchased in 1929 as...
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    included HMS Discovery of the 1875–1876 British Arctic Expedition to the North Pole, and RRS Discovery, which carried the 1901–1904 Discovery Expedition...
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    to the Antarctic regions; the Discovery expedition of 1901 to 1904. Handsley joined the Royal Navy on 24 December 1901, at age 15. Whilst serving on HMS...
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    The Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the...
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  • motor ship?". Anglicannews.org. Retrieved 18 October 2017. "The Ship". RRS Discovery. Retrieved 2021-06-11. "Dunkirk Port Museum". Dunkirk Guide. Archived...
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  • dead link] "HMS Trincomalee". Retrieved 12 October 2022. "About Discovery Museum". Discovery Museum. Retrieved 6 October 2016. "Ship, Fishing Boat 'Tamzine'...
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  • stand for 20 years. August 6 – Discovery Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott sets sail from Britain on the RRS Discovery to explore the Ross Sea in Antarctica...
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    Royal Navy at age 16. In 1901, while serving on Ringarooma in New Zealand, he volunteered to join Scott's 1901–1904 Discovery Expedition to Antarctica...
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  • Company was a Scottish shipbuilding company, renowned for building the RRS Discovery (1901). See http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Dundee_Shipbuilding_Co v t e...
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    became one of the first to comply giving up his men and 150 rifles. RRS Discovery, the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in Great...
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    would stand for 20 years. King Edward and Queen Alexandra came aboard RRS Discovery on the eve of its departure. Dr. Edward Wilson, the ship's surgeon,...
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    Falcon Scott, the British National Antarctic Expedition departed on the RRS Discovery from Lyttelton, New Zealand on its way to Antarctica. The Anglican Bishop...
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    regions was as third officer on Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904, from which he was sent home early on health grounds, after...
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    RRS Discovery, which first took Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton to Antarctica as part of the British National Antarctic Expedition in 1901....
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    the features of Discovery, as well as taking her name. RRS Discovery was commanded by Robert Falcon Scott and took part in the Discovery Investigations...
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    consciousness after recording a barometer reading at 8,800 metres (28,900 ft). RRS Discovery, commanded by Robert Falcon Scott, departed London from the East India...
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    of the whaling ships was also crucial in the decision to build the RRS Discovery in Dundee. Following on from that expedition, the specific impetus for...
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  • Balfour Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh 21 March – SY Discovery (later named RRS Discovery) is formally launched in Dundee. 31 March – National census...
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    Pittsburgh (d. 1979) The Discovery Expedition to Antarctica, led by Robert Falcon Scott, began the second leg of its journey as RRS Discovery departed from Cape...
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  • seconds since the Unix epoch. August 6 – Discovery Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott sets sail on the RRS Discovery to explore the Ross Sea in Antarctica....
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    compartment of ice. The crest is a representation of the RRS Discovery, the research ship used in 1901 by the caption Robert Falcon Scott on his first journey...
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  • included HMS Discovery of the 1875–1876 British Arctic Expedition to the North Pole, and RRS Discovery, which carried the 1901–1904 Discovery Expedition...
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    district nursing organisation, and clean water provision for the town. The RRS Discovery in Dundee, the ship Wilson first travelled to Antarctica on, is preserved...
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  • life as a clerk, and was employed in this position in November 1901 when the RRS Discovery made landfall in his then-home, Lyttelton. The ship dismissed...
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