HMS Challenger (1858)
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HMS Challenger was a Pearl-class corvette of the Royal Navy, launched on 13 February 1858 at Woolwich Dockyard. She carried the first global marine survey, organised by the Royal Society in the 1870s.
Painting of Challenger by William Frederick Mitchell
HMS Scout, a sister ship of Challenger
Challenger expedition
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The Challenger expedition of 1872–1876 was a scientific programme that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography. The expedition was named after the naval vessel that undertook the t
HMS Challenger (1858)
…London obtained the use of Challenger from the Royal Navy in 1872 and modified the ship to undertake the first global marine research expedition: the Challenger expedition (1872–1876). She carried a complement of 243, comprising officers (including commander George Nares), scientists (with Charles Wyville Thomson the chief…
HMS Challenger refitted at Sheerness in 1872, The Illustrated London News
Track of HMS Challenger from December 1872 until May 1876. The colour contours represent ocean surface density.
One of the original boxes containing the photographic negatives brought back from the expedition
HMS Challenger in the Southern Ocean, drawn by crewman Sub-lieutenant Herbert Swire