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Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974)
‘THE DISCOVERY’ BERTHED ON THE THAMES WITH SHELL MEX HOUSE IN THE DISTANCE, 1938
watercolour
signed lower left
13 x 9in. (33.02 x 22.86cm)
RRS Discovery was designed for Antarctic research and was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to
be built in Britain. In 1901 it was launched as a Royal Research Ship (RRS) and its inaugural mission was the
British National Antarctic Expedition, carrying Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton on their Discov-
ery Expedition. In the late 1930s - when her research days were over - she was presented to the Boy Scouts
Association as a static training ship for scouts in London.
During the war her engines and boilers were removed for scrap to help with the war effort. She became too
costly for the Scouts Association to maintain and was transferred to the Admiralty in 1954 and later used as
a drill ship for the Royal Navy Auxiliary Reserve and also as a training ship for the Westminster Sea Cadet
Corps.
Today the Discovery is the centrepiece of the Discovery Point museum in Dundee.
€1,500-€2,000 (£1,180-£1,570 approx.)
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 31