discoveryDiscovery
The HMS discoveryDiscovery, a 29 m long, 303-tonne sloop, was built in 1789 at Randall & Brent’s in Rotherhithe
shipyard.1 Captain Vancouver commanded the discoveryDiscovery, as well as its armed tender the chathamChatham, on his 1791-1795 expedition to survey the Pacific Northwest coast, and to wrest
control of Nootka Sound from the Spanish.2
The discoveryDiscovery, which possessed 10 swivel guns, 10 four-pound guns, and a crew of 100 men, spent
three years on the Northwest coast before it returned to England.3
The discoveryDiscovery spent the remainder of its service as a bomb vessel, an army hospital ship, and,
finally, as a convict hulk, before it was dismantled in 1834.4
- 1. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Placenames (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 162.
- 2. Ibid.
- 3. Ibid.
- 4. Ibid.
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