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 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 was a British Royal Research Ship operated by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). RRS Discovery (III) was built in Aberdeen in 1962...
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Ernest Shackleton. RRS Discovery may also refer to: RRS Discovery II, a British Royal Research Ship completed in 1929 RRS Discovery (1962), a British Royal...
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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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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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Ship RRS Discovery (2013), a British Royal Research Ship Age of Discovery Discovery (apple), an apple cultivar Discovery (elm cultivar) Discovery (horse)...
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Dundee (redirect from City of discovery)
promoted as "One City, Many Discoveries" in honour of Dundee's history of scientific activities and of the RRS Discovery, Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic...
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RRS Shackleton (1955) RRS John Biscoe (1956) RRS Discovery (1962) RRS Bransfield (1970) RRS Charles Darwin (1985) RRS Ernest Shackleton (1999) RRS James Clark Ross...
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drawings, maps, diagrams, and paintings. Hardy served as zoologist on the RRS Discovery's voyage to explore the Antarctic between 1925 and 1927. On the voyage...
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History of Antarctica (redirect from Discovery of Antarctica)
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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whaling ships. Vessels used were: RRS Discovery from 1924 to 1931 RRS William Scoresby from 1927 to 1945 or later RRS Discovery II from 1929 to 1951 Results...
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Archipelago. It was charted and named in 1927 by DI personnel on the RRS Discovery. Gerlache Strait Geology Anvers Island Geology This article incorporates...
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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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for Commander Joseph Stenhouse, Royal Navy Reserve, captain of the RRS Discovery in these waters in 1927. O'Connors Rock This article incorporates public...
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mates. Two cases of this phenomenon have been captured, one on the RRS Discovery in Ireland and the other on the R/V Tansei-Maru. In both instances,...
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British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition on RRS Discovery used white cotton sheeting to improvise a courtesy ensign (a flag used...
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Bank, Edoras Bank, Lorien Knoll, Isengard Ridge. In February 2000, the RRS Discovery, a British oceanographic research vessel sailing in the Rockall Trough...
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Edward Wilson (explorer) (section Discovery Expedition)
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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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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List of Antarctic flags (section Discovery Expedition)
Retrieved 2024-03-20. "Commemorative flag for the 200th anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica travels to the ice continent". ROSSOTRUDNICHESTVO. July...
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Boaty McBoatface (redirect from RRS Boaty McBoatface)
Attenborough, was assigned to one of the submersibles deployed aboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough instead. Describing it as an "eloquent compromise"...
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Maritime history of Scotland (section RRS Discovery)
York (17) winner of the last battleship action in European waters. RRS Discovery Antarctic explorer, built at Dundee. SS Californian (didn't rescue the...
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Land. The expedition was due to depart England in August 1914 aboard RRS Discovery, the ship of Crean's first mission to Antarctica. In February 1914,...
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representing the native wildlife. The crest of the coat of arms is the RRS Discovery, which first took Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton to Antarctica...
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British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition on RRS Discovery used white cotton sheeting to improvise a courtesy ensign (a flag used...
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vessels. In February 2000, a British oceanographic research vessel, the RRS Discovery, sailing in the Rockall Trough west of Scotland, encountered the largest...
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Charles Wyon. A new design by Ernest Gillick was used from 1904, showing RRS Discovery, with a sledging party in the foreground. The obverse bears a portrait...
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Antarctic in 1901, and was sold in 1905. She was re-designated RRS (Royal Research Ship) Discovery in 1923, repurchased in 1929 as a training ship, and was...
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The RRS James Cook is a British Royal Research Ship operated by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). She was built in 2006 to replace the...
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