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The Discovery II was a British research vessel that was built for use in the Discovery Investigations .
history
The Flannery, Baggallay and Johnson in London designed ship was under the hull number 295 on the shipyard Ferguson Brothers in Scotland Port Glasgow built for the Natural Oceanographic Council. The launching of the ship took place on November 2 1928th In November 1929 the ship was completed. The construction cost was £ 70,000.
The ship was intended as a replacement for the Discovery , Robert Falcon Scott's expedition ship , with which he had undertaken his research trips to Antarctica . Since the Discovery was still in service for the government of the Falkland Islands , the new building was put into service as Discovery II .
The ship was planned and built for use in the Southern Ocean for research trips as part of the Discovery Committee's Discovery Investigations and was also used here - with an interruption during World War II - until the end of the research. During the research voyages, the ship also collected weather data for the UK Meteorological Office .
1935/36, the ship took part in an expedition to rescue Lincoln Ellsworth and his pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon (1897-1975), which on December 5 while trying to Antarctica from Dundee Island at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula to Had to make an emergency landing due to lack of fuel to cross the Bay of Whales with an airplane.
During the Second World War, the ship was subordinated to the Royal Navy as an auxiliary ship and was used until 1942 mainly in the waters around the United Kingdom and in the North Atlantic , especially in the Denmark Strait between Iceland and Greenland . In the following years the ship was used by Trinity House and the Commissioners of Irish Lights .
After the Second World War, the ship was subordinated to the new National Institute of Oceanography (later the Institute of Oceanography Science). In 1948 it was converted back into a research ship and extensively modernized. On April 20, 1950, the ship was taken over by the Directorate of Overseas Surveys and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary bereedert .
After the Discovery Investigations ended, the ship was used for research in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean . In February and March 1955 it was used by the Meteorological Office as a weather observation ship at Station "K" in the Bay of Biscay for 24 days , as the ship had to be repaired at this station.
On September 7, 1962, the ship was decommissioned and later scrapped in Passage West .
The ship circled the Antarctic several times. In the years 1931 to 1933 the ship circumnavigated the Antarctic in several sections. The Antarctic was only circled for the fifth time and for the first time during the winter months. Further circumnavigations took place from 1937 to 1939 and 1950 to 1951.
A planned circumnavigation of Antarctica from 1935 to 1937 was not carried out because the ship took part in the expedition to rescue Ellsworth.
Technical specifications
The ship was propelled by a triple expansion steam engine . Due to its large bunker capacity, the ship was able to cover around 10,000 nautical miles with one load of oil at a speed of 10 knots. At a speed of 13.5 knots it was still around 8,000 nautical miles.
The superstructures were in the midship area. The ship had three masts for the cargo booms , one in the foredeck and two in the stern area. A crow's nest was attached to the front mast .
For research, the ship was u. a. equipped with several laboratories.
Others
The ship was shown several times on postage stamps.
Remarks
- ↑ Other sources give the circumnavigation of the Antarctic as the fourth ever.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f RRS Discovery II , Historical RFA, Royal Fleet Auxiliary Historical Society. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
- ^ A b c History , Discovery Investigations. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d Ex-Trinity House Vessel Discovery II is Paid Off , Trinity House History. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
- ↑ Lincoln Ellsworth , South-Pole.com. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
- ↑ MB Deacon: How the Science of Oceanography Developed. In: CP Summerhayes, SA Thorpe (Ed.): Oceanography. An Illustrated Guide. , Southampton Oceanography Center, Manson Publishing 1996, ISBN 978-1-84076-547-2 , p. 23.
- ↑ Geoff Puddefoot: The Fourth Force. The Untold Story of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary since 1945. Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley 2009, ISBN 978-1-84832-046-8 .
- ^ Jon Stephenson: Crevasse Roulette: The First Trans-Antarctic Crossing 1957-58. Rosenberg Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-87705-866-0 , p. 161.
- ^ A b Circumnavigation of Antarctica , Antarctica. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
- ^ Robert K. Headland: Chronological List of Antarctic Expeditions and Related Historical Events. Studies in Polar Research. Cambridge University Press 1989, ISBN 0-521-30903-4 , p. 290.
- ^ Robert K. Headland: Chronological List of Antarctic Expeditions and Related Historical Events. Studies in Polar Research. Cambridge University Press 1989, ISBN 0-521-30903-4 , p. 298.
- ^ Robert K. Headland: Chronological List of Antarctic Expeditions and Related Historical Events. Studies in Polar Research. Cambridge University Press 1989, ISBN 0-521-30903-4 , p. 335.
- ^ Robert K. Headland: Chronological List of Antarctic Expeditions and Related Historical Events. Studies in Polar Research. Cambridge University Press 1989, ISBN 0-521-30903-4 , p. 296.
- ^ RFA Discovery - Stamps , Historical RFA, Royal Fleet Auxiliary Historical Society. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
- ↑ Discovery II , ShipStamps.co.uk. Retrieved January 31, 2017.