HMS Discovery 1873 - 1902
1873 - built in Dundee by Stephens & Sons as the whaler 'Bloodhound'
1874 - purchased by the Admiralty on 5 December and converted for exploration, commissioned 13 April 1875
1875-1876 - captained by George Nares for the British Arctic Expedition to reach the North Pole via Smith Sound (the sea passage between Greenland and Ellesmere Island, Canada.)
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Innuit family in Disco, Greenland
Hans (Polaris ice-drift) and family
Disco, Greenland
Arctic Highlanders, Cape York, Greenland (Bow of Discovery)
Natives of Disco, Greenland
Leather-bound metal compass with ivory handle used by sledge parties on the Arctic Expedition of 1875
Approximately 100 photographs of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6 under Capt. Nares
