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 co
Discovery
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 Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for leading the Vancouver Expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including
HMS Discovery (1789)
…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…
Possible portrait of Vancouver
In The Caneing in Conduit Street (1796), James Gillray caricatured Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford's street-corner assault on Vancouver in Conduit Street, London.
Vancouver's grave in St Peter’s Church, Petersham