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Discovery 03

            The Royal Research Ship, Discovery, at Discovery Point on the FIrth of Tay. Launched in 1901, she was designed for research during the height of the great, heroic age of Antarctic exploration, and was the last wooden three-master built in the UK (although she also had auxiliary steam engines too).

After her exploration and research years, the ship moved around, being used as a training vessel, a cargo vessel and more. She was moored in London until the late 1970s, and the acclaimed science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke often took his lunch aboard her when taking a break from his writing there - he would borrow her name for his spaceship in the now-iconic 2001: a Space Odyssey.

In the mid 1980s, deteriorating, she was saved by a maritime trust and returned to the east coast of Scotland, to Dundee, where she was born, where she first felt water under her enormously thick keel (built massively to resist the crushing Antarctic ice). She is now moored in a dry dock on the mighty Firth of Tay, from where so many ships first sailed, with her own adjacent museum, Discovery Point, right next to the new V&A Gallery.

I think it's wonderful this historic vessel has been preserved, she carried out so much exploration and scientific research, expanding our knowledge of our planet, filling in some of the final blanks on the great map of our globe, and is forever linked to the likes of Scott and Shackleton. Her legacy lives on today - there is a modern RSS Discovery, named in her honour, launched in 2013, and continuing to carry out research into our vast, world oceans.

The only thing I find a little sad, is looking down into her berth, and realising it is a dry dock - sensibly, to save more wear and tear from the tidal river waters, of course. But it does make me feel a little sad for her - she was born to feel water course under her keel, waves splashing against her reinforced bows, and she'll never do that again. 

It's a bit like seeing the Concorde in the Museum of Flight - I am glad it is preserved, but it was never meant to be a static exhibit. But who know what she may inspire in a visiting youngster today - perhaps there's a kid visiting her today who will be fired with that imagination for exploration, and will grow up to contribute to our expanding view of the world. That would be a good legacy...

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Taken in: UK / Scotland / Dundee (show map)

Taken on: April 26, 2023

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Camera: Fujifilm FinePix HS50EXR, f/5.0, 1/150 sec, 42.3mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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Aperture:	f/5.0
Exposure Time:	0.007 sec (1/150)
Focal Length:	42.3mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Landscape
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Scene Capture Type:	Landscape
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Digital Camera FinePix HS50EXR Ver1.01
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