[BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION]. & PARKINGTON (Herbert Stuart) 4th Baron Hampton.

Royal Research Ship "Discovery": a short account of the Ship, her voyages and her achievements.

SCOTT'S SHIP RETIRES TO THE SEA SCOUTS

Pictorial wrappers illustrated with a picture of the ship. 8vo. Staplebound at spine. Dampstained within, wrappers soiled with 2 inch closed tear at spine, staples rusted. A good plus copy of a rare pamphlet. 16pp. London, Boy Scouts Association, 1937.

£550.00

A rare pamphlet produced by the Boy Scouts Association, commemorating the 1936 loan of the ship Discovery as a training base for the Sea Scouts. The introduction is signed “Hampton”, and thanks John Murray, Lieut-Commander Bernacchi, and the Hudson’s Bay Company for permission to include quotations from books published, and information about the ship’s time in their custody.

Discovery was custom built in Dundee with special adaptations for Antarctic travel. Her maiden voyage was Captain Scott’s 1901-4 British National Antarctic Expedition, after which she was sold to the Hudson’s Bay Company for work in the Arctic. In the 1920s she headed south again under the captaincy of J.R. Stenhouse, conducting hydrographic surveys and whaling research. Her final voyage was with B.A.N.Z.A.R. under Sir Douglas Mawson in 1930. After languishing in East India Docks, she was given to the Scouts, who with the consent of the Port of London Authority, moored her at Embankment as a training vessel.

2 copies only on OCLC: National Library of Australia and Sons of the Revolution CA. No copy found in Dundee Heritage Trust. SPRI only hold a later edition of 23pp, dated 1951.

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