SCOTT’S FAMOUS SHIP.

Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17318, 5 January 1928, Page 4

SCOTT’S FAMOUS SHIP.

AN AFTERNOON ON THE DISCOVERY.

LONDON, Nov. 11

Captain Scott’s ship, the Discovery, was opened ts the public last Saturday as she lay at her berth at West India Dock. ~ She , has returhed after two years in the southern seas under Commander J. R. Stenhouse. Members of the scientific staff are at present in London working, on their specimens, but they will return to the Arctic Seas shortly to carry on their investigations into the whaling industry. That the memory of Captain Scott still glows in the hearts of English people was shown by the fact that the little ship was crowded all the afternoon. Children had appai’ently dragged not altogether unwilling parents from every part of London to the dingy wharves, ,and together they clambered up and down every ladder and filled every cranny. “Bonzo,” the ship’s dog, attempting to sleep in the galley, had a disturbed afternoon, i It was quite impossible to penetrate into the wireless cabin, which was filled with engineers of to-morrow, bombarding the operator with questions, and even making sketches of the intricate machinery.

None of the specimens and scientific matei’ial which the Discovery has collected during her two years in the far south was on view, but theye was everything which a layman could derstand and look at, fully labelled, while a member of the crew stood by to explain it. A member of the crew, robed in furs, stood beside a tiny tent, such as they used on their expeditions ashore, and obligingly got in and out of a sleeping bag “to show how it worked.” On the deck beside him lay two snow sledges and some sets of ice grips. Then there was a whale harpoon fixed to the brows, and those who wished for information upon the habits ofwhale and their wives received it without stint.