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THE Royal Research Ship Discovery, which is J. leaving England at the end of the present month, will be engaged for the next two years in oceanographical investigations in the South Atlantic and Antarctic. The ship, which is barque-rigged with auxiliary steam, was built in 1901 for the late Captain Sir Robert Falcon Scott, and was acquired on behalf of the Falkland Islands Government for the purpose of the present in vestigations in 1923. During the last eighteen months she has undergone extensive repairs, and changes have been made in her masting and sail-plan in accordance with experience obtained by Capt. Scott. She has been refitted throughout, and is now completely equipped for the investigations for which she is intended.
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The Expedition of the R. R. S. Discovery. Nature 115, 950–951 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115950a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/115950a0