The RRS Discovery

RRS Discovery is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built for Antarctic research, and was launched in 1901. It was built by the Dundee Shipbuilders Company, and its first mission was the British National Antarctic Expedition, carrying Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton on their first, and highly successful, journey to the Antarctic, known as the Discovery Expedition.

The ship cost £34,050 to build, plus another £10,322 to be fitted with engines and machinery and more than £6000 for other equipment and fittings: The total cost for the Discovery was £51,000, equivalent to £4.1m in modern currency.