Discovery, RRS
F2. Maritime Culture, Heritage, Archaeology, Art and MuseumsDefinition
1901 Antarctic vessel preserved at Dundee.
RRS Discovery is a Dundee-built wooden research ship completed in 1901 for the British National Antarctic Expedition of 1901 to 1904, led by Robert Falcon Scott with Ernest Shackleton aboard. Purpose-built for polar work, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship constructed in Britain. After service with the Hudson’s Bay Company and as a training vessel, she returned to Dundee in 1986 and is preserved afloat at Discovery Point as a museum ship. The Royal Research Ship prefix passed to later vessels of the same name.
Source: Dundee shipbuilding record; British National Antarctic Expedition 1901 to 1904; Discovery launched 1901, preserved at Dundee from 1986.