DISCOVERY II. LAUNCHED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 812, 5 November 1929, Page 9

DISCOVERY 11. LAUNCHED

ROYAL RESEARCH SHIP TO SAIL SOUTH EXPEDITION IN DECEMBER LONDON, Monday. Discovery 1I„ launched yesterday at Port Glasgow, by the King's permission has been styled "The Royal Pesearch Ship.” Ferguson Brothers built her for the Crown agents for he Colonies to designs of Flannery, Daggallay and Johnson, naval architects. The vessel is 232 ft overall, has a breadth of 30ft and a loaded draught oj 18ft. she has been specially tf engthened against ice-pressure, tier speed will be 13 knots, and she . , * be able to steam 6,000 miles at “ speed and 9,000 miles at economic speed. Discovery 11. has large and wellbiological and chemical a chart room, a survey ■ina a Btore room for instruments « h ba> ’ * s to be e< l u iPP et * . ltn an X-ray apparatus, a vapour Jt np and long and short-wave wireless sets. The new ship will be used to assist Marine investigations and will be u-fooiated with a smaller vessel, the Scoresby, at the marine bio■ht o s,atlon at South Georgia, in k, South Atlantic. There the life T ® ry °f whales will be studied. The o(scarry six scientists, eight a surgeon and a full complei* of “0 men. She is to sail from soi. , n on December 7 under the g leadership of Dr. S. W. will ' Commander W. M. Carey command the ship.