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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 ...
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 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) USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) HMS Hecla (1815) HMS Investigator (1848) USS Jeannette (1878) Icebreaker ...
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)
A new ship was purchased, fitted out, and named HMS Discovery after one of Cook's ships. Her captain was Henry Roberts and Vancouver his 1st Lieutenant. [1] Plans changed when the adventurer John Meares reported that the Spanish had impounded his ship and seized hundreds of thousands of pounds' worth of goods at Nootka Sound.
HMS Discovery (1741) HMS Discovery (1774) HMS Discovery (1789) RRS Discovery; HMS Dolphin (1751) E. ... Imperial Eagle (ship) HMS Investigator (1801) HMS Investigator ...
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.