RRS Discovery – Dundee
On my recent coach trip to Pitlochry the other passengers and I had a day out in Perth in the morning and Dundee in the afternoon. I visited Discovery Point in Dundee, where the ship RSS Discovery is moored.
I visited the Discovery Point museum exploring all 11 galleries, and 9 audio-visual film shows with over 150 historic polar artefacts on display. And then I went on board the world famous RRS Discovery to explore the decks of this incredible, Dundee made, 119 year old ship, a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built for Antarctic research, and launched in 1901. She was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in theUK. Her 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.
