Discovery HMS

Ship Details

Rig

Survey Ship

Built

1789

Built In

Rotherhithe, London

Tonnage

340

Built By

J.F.Randall

Demise

broken up on 15/2/1834

Description

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. Thereafter she served as a hospital ship and later as a convict ship until 1831. She was broken up in 1834.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Discovery_(1789) (accessed on 13/10/2017)

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George Vancouver - A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and round the world; in which the coast of North-West America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed: undertaken by His Majesty's command, principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the north Pacific and the north Atlantic Oceans: and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795 in the Discovery Sloop of War and Armed Tender Chatham - three volumes (London 1798, 1984)

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