HMS Discovery

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HMS Discovery

Eleven ships of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British Armed Forces . From the mid-18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s....
have borne the name HMS Discovery, while ships of other branches have also used the name:

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Eleven ships of the Royal Navy
Royal Navy

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British Armed Forces . From the mid-18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s....
have borne the name HMS Discovery, while ships of other branches have also used the name:

was a discovery vessel
Survey vessel

A survey vessel is any type of ship or boat that is used for mapping. It is a type of Research vessel....
in service between 1600 and 1620.
was a 20-gun ship purchased in 1651 and burnt in 1655.
was a 6-gun ketch
Ketch

A ketch is a sailing craft with two Mast : a main mast, and a shorter mizzen mast abaft of the main mast, but forward of the rudder. Both masts are rigged mainly Fore-and-aft rig....
launched in 1692 and broken up in 1705.
was a discovery sloop
Sloop

A sloop is a sailboat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter . A sloop's fore-triangle is smaller than a cutter's, and a sloop usually bends only one headsail, though this distinction is not definitive....
lost in the Arctic in 1719.
was a 6-gun storeship purchased in 1741 and sold in 1750.
was an 8-gun discovery vessel launched in 1774 as the civilian collier Diligence. She was acquired in 1775, and accompanied HMS Resolution on Captain James Cook
James Cook

Captain James Cook Royal Society Royal Navy was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy....
's third voyage of exploration from 1776 to 1780. She became a dockyard transport in 1781 and was broken up in 1797.
was a 10-gun sloop
Sloop-of-war

In the 18th and the earlier part of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a small sailing warship with a single gun deck that carried anything up to eighteen cannon....
launched and purchased in 1789. She was commanded by Captain George Vancouver
George Vancouver

Captain George Vancouver Royal Navy was an officer in the Royal Navy, best known for his Vancouver Expedition, including the shores of the modern day Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon....
on his voyage of exploration from 1791 to 1795. She was converted to a bomb vessel
Bomb vessel

A bomb vessel, bomb ship, bomb ketch, or simply bomb was a type of wooden sailing naval ship. Its primary armament was not cannon - although bomb vessels carried a few cannon for self-defence - but rather Mortar mounted forward near the bow and elevated to a high angle, and projecting their fire in a ballistic arc....
in 1799, a convict ship
Convict ship

The term convict ship is colloquially used to describe any ship engaged on a voyage to carry convicted felons under Sentence of penal transportation from their place of conviction to their place of banishment....
in 1818 and was broken up in 1834.
was a survey vessel in service in 1800 and sold in 1828.
HMS Discovery was to have been a wood screw gunvessel. She was ordered in 1861 but was cancelled in 1863.
was a wood screw storeship, formerly the civilian Bloodhound, purchased in 1874. She was commanded by Captain George Nares
George Nares

Admiral Sir George Strong Nares, Order of the Bath was a United Kingdom naval officer and Arctic List of explorers.The third son of William Henry Nares, another British naval captain, Nares was born at Llansenseld, near Abergavenny in Monmouthshire ....
during the British Arctic Expedition
British Arctic Expedition

The British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Sir George Strong Nares, was sent by the British Admiralty to attempt to reach the North Pole via Smith Sound....
between 1875 and 1876. She was sold in 1902.
HMS Discovery
RRS Discovery

The Royal Research Ship Discovery was the last wooden three-masted ship to be built in United Kingdom, and was launched on 21 March 1901, designed for Antarctic research....
was a purpose-built survey ship launched in 1901. She was commanded by Captain Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Falcon Scott

Robert Falcon Scott Royal Victorian Order was a British Royal Naval officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13....
during the Discovery Expedition
Discovery Expedition

The British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, generally known as the Discovery Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctica regions since James Clark Ross voyage sixty years earlier....
to the Antarctic in 1901, and was sold in 1905. She was re-designated RRS
Royal Research Ship

A Royal Research Ship is a United Kingdom-operated merchant ship that conducts research for British Government scientific research organisations, notably the British Antarctic Survey and the Natural Environment Research Council ....
(Royal Research Ship) Discovery in 1923, repurchased in 1929 as a training ship, and was handed over for preserving as a museum ship
Museum ship

A museum ship, or sometimes memorial ship, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public, for educational or memorial purposes....
in 1979.