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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 Royal Navy ship launched in 1789 and best known as the lead ship in George Vancouver's exploration of the west coast of North America in his famous 1791-1795 expedition. She was converted to a bomb vessel in 1798 and participated in the Battle of Copenhagen .
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 ...
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)
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 ...
The original 1920s edition of the H. P. Gibson naval board game Dover Patrol used a number of real RN ship names, but generally attached them to different ship classes. Thus the " Flagships " were H.M.S. Nelson and Drake , and the " Super Dreadnoughts " were H.M.S. Australia , New Zealand , Canada and India , but few of these resembled the ...
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.
HMS Discovery (1741) HMS Discovery (1774) HMS Discovery (1789) RRS Discovery; HMS Dolphin (1751) E. ... Imperial Eagle (ship) HMS Investigator (1801) HMS Investigator ...