Built in Dundee, the RRS Discovery was a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built for Antarctic research. Launched in 1901, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in the United Kingdom . 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 . They returned to the UK in 1904 after being trapped in the Antarctic ice for two years.
She is now back in Dundee and forms the centerpiece of the exhibition highlighting the feats of Scott and his crew.
