Terra Nova (ship)
The Terra Nova at the ice
The Terra Nova (Latin for New World / Earth ) was a British whalers and an expedition ship that is mainly known for his work at the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910, led by Robert Falcon Scott. It was built in 1884 for whaling and sealing fleet of Dundee and ten years used in seal hunting in the Labrador Sea before it was used for expeditions.
Your first scientific use they experienced during the evacuation of the Jackson - Harmsworth Arctic Expedition of 1894-1897.
In 1903 she sailed with the former whaler Morning in Antarctica, to help free the Discovery Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott from the McMurdo Sound. An approximately 64 km long and often ice-free bay in Victoria Land between Cape Washington and the Drygalski glacier was baptized in the episode " Terra Nova Bay ".
1905, they brought back the in distress Fiala - Ziegler expedition from Franz- Josef Land.
In 1909 she was of the Bowring Brothers Ltd.. acquired for the Terra Nova expedition. She was amplified from bow to stern with about two meters of oak, to be ready against the ice pressure, and left England in June 1910 under the command of Captain Robert Falcon Scott. During the three -year expedition they undertook in the summer of supply and research trips, but not wintered in Antarctica, but in Lyttelton in New Zealand.
After returning from Antarctica, Terra Nova was built in 1913 repurchased by their former owners and took the work in the seal hunt off Newfoundland back on. Its end came on 13 September 1943, when she sank off Greenland. The crew was rescued by a cutter of the United States Coast Guard. The wreck of the ship was discovered by a team from the Schmidt Ocean Institute on the research vessel Falkor in July 2012.