HMS Discovery (1789)
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HMS Discovery was a Royal Navy ship launched in 1789 and best known as the lead ship in George Vancouver's exploration of the west coast of North America in his famous 1791-1795 expedition. She was converted to a bomb vessel in 1798 and participated in the Battle of Copenhagen. Thereafter she served as a hospital ship and later as a prison hulk until 1831. She was broken up in 1834.
HMS Discovery (1789)
Model at the Vancouver Maritime Museum
Discovery ran aground in early August 1792 on hidden rocks in Queen Charlotte Strait near Fife Sound. Within a day Chatham also ran aground on rocks about two miles away.
Discovery as a prison ship at Deptford on the River Thames by Edward William Cooke
George Vancouver
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Captain George Vancouver was a British Royal Navy officer best known for his 1791–1795 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what are now the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California. The expedition also explored the Hawaiian Islands and the southwest coast of Australia.
A portrait from the late 18th century by an unknown artist believed to depict George Vancouver
In The Caneing in Conduit Street (1796), James Gillray caricatured Pitt's street corner assault on Vancouver
Vancouver's grave
A statue of George Vancouver in front of Vancouver City Hall