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Model at the Vancouver Maritime Museum. Discovery was launched in 1789 and purchased for the Navy in 1790. [1] She was named after the previous HMS Discovery, one of the ships on James Cook's third voyage to the Pacific Ocean. The earlier Discovery was the ship on which Vancouver had served as a midshipman.
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy and a reserve shore establishment of the Canadian Navy have borne the name HMS/HMCS Discovery, while ships of other branches have also used the name: HMS Discovery (1600) was a discovery vessel in service between 1600 and 1620. HMS Discovery (1651) was a 20-gun ship purchased in 1651 and burnt in 1655. HMS ...
HMS Discovery was a wood-hulled screw expedition ship, and later storeship, formerly the sealing ship Bloodhound built in 1873 in Dundee. She was purchased in 1874 for the British Arctic Expedition of 1875–1876 and later served as a store ship. Discovery was sold in 1902, reverting to the name Bloodhound and her previous sealing trade. The ...
HMS Alert (1856) America (airship) Antarctic Snow Cruiser; HMS Assistance (1850) USS Bear (1874) HMS Blossom (1806) Bowdoin (Arctic schooner) SS Chelyuskin; USRC Thomas Corwin (1876) HMS Discovery (1874) Effie M. Morrissey; HMS Enterprise (1848) HMS Erebus (1826) Fox (ship) Fram (ship) HMS Fury (1814) Icebreaker Fyodor Litke; HMS Griper (1813 ...
HMS Discovery (1741) HMS Discovery (1774) HMS Discovery (1789) RRS Discovery; HMS Dolphin (1751) E. ... Imperial Eagle (ship) HMS Investigator (1801) HMS Investigator ...
HMS Discovery was the consort ship of James Cook's third expedition to the Pacific Ocean in 1776–1780. Like Cook's other ships, Discovery was a Whitby-built collier originally named Diligence when she was built in 1774. Purchased in 1775, the vessel was measured at 299 tons burthen. [1] Originally a brig, Cook had her changed to a full-rigged ...
Captain James Cook, FRS, RN (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European discovery of eastern Australia, Hawaii and undertook the first circumnavigation of New Zealand.
Age of Discovery ships (23 P) Arctic exploration vessels (61 P) Austronesian ships (2 C, 28 P) E. ... HMS Discovery; Djong; E. Endurance (1912 ship) USS Enterprise (1874)