The Voyages of the Discovery

The Voyages of the Discovery
Author :
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Total Pages : 161
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781848327023
ISBN-13 : 1848327021
Rating : 4/5 (021 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Voyages of the Discovery by : Ann Savours

Download or read book The Voyages of the Discovery written by Ann Savours and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovery was built for Captain Scott's first Antarctic expedition of 1901-04 and was launched more than 100 years ago in 1901, at Dundee. She had a long and intriguing career before her final voyage back there in 1986; this book tells the story of that chequered history. Despite a number of expeditions to the Southern Ocean during the nineteenth century, the continent of Antarctica remained mostly a mystery by the turn of the twentieth. To remedy this the Royal Geographical Society proposed a National Antarctic Expedition, and a purpose-built vessel, the Discovery, was designed. Based on a whale ship, she was massively built to withstand ice, and was equipped with a hoisting propeller and rudder. Sh set sail from Cowes of 6 August and six months later was in the Ross Sea. The southern sledging expedition, of Scott, Shackleton and Wilson, reached within 500 miles of the South Pole. In 1905, a year after her return to Britain, she was purchased by the Hudson's Bay Company and worked as a simple cargo carrier between London and their trading posts in the Canadian Arctic. Later she was sent to rescue Shackleton's men on Elephant Island. In 1925 she became a research ship, and in 1929-31 she was used to survey what became Australian Antarctic territory. Moored on the Thames Embankment, she survived the London blitz before returning to Dundee where she is now on permanent display.


The Voyages of the Discovery Related Books

The Voyages of the Discovery
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Ann Savours
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-04 - Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

GET EBOOK

Discovery was built for Captain Scott's first Antarctic expedition of 1901-04 and was launched more than 100 years ago in 1901, at Dundee. She had a long and in
Pilgrims on the Ice
Language: en
Pages: 362
Authors: T. H. Baughman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

GET EBOOK

Robert Falcon Scott?s 1901?4 expedition to the Antarctic was a landmark event in the history of Antarctic exploration and created a sensation comparable to the
South
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: National Maritime Museum
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-23 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

GET EBOOK

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman.
The Voyages of Captain Scott
Language: en
Pages: 386
Authors: Turley Charles
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-21 - Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

GET EBOOK

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typ
Leadership Lessons from the Race to the South Pole
Language: en
Pages: 182
Authors: Fergus O'Connell
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

GET EBOOK

A project management expert identifies methods for running any project successfully based on lessons learned from the exploits of two storied explorers. What co