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THE launch of a ship specially built for oceanographic research is an event sufficiently rare to merit some notice in these columns. She is intended for the work of the Discovery Committee, and is for service in the South Atlantic and Antarctic, where she will be employed in biological and hydrological investigations concerned mainly with whaling. She was designed by Messrs. Flannery, Baggallay, and Johnson, consulting naval architects to the Committee, and was built to the order of the Crown Agents for the Colonies by Messrs. Ferguson Bros. of Port Glasgow. She was launched on Nov. 2 by Mrs. J. O. Borley and has been named Discovery II. The title ‘Royal Research Ship’ has been approved by H.M. the King.
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The Royal Research Ship Discovery II. Nature 124, 798–799 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124798a0
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