&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:HMS_Discovery_(1874).jpg) HMS Discovery (foreground) and HMS Alert (background, right)
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| History | |
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| Name | Bloodhound |
| Owner |
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| Builder | Alexander Stephen & Sons, Dundee |
| Yard number | 53 |
| Launched | 2 August 1872 |
| Completed | April 1873 |
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| Name | HMS Discovery |
| Acquired | Purchased 5 December 1874 |
| Commissioned | 13 April 1875 |
| Fate | Sold February 1902 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 1247 tons[2] |
| Length | 166 ft (51 m) |
| Beam | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Draught | 16.5 ft (5.0 m) |
| Installed power | Indicated 312 hp (233 kW) |
| Propulsion | Greenock Foundry Company steam engine |
| Sail plan | Barque-rigged |
| Complement | 60[1] |
HMS Discovery was a wood-hulled screw expedition ship, and later storeship, formerly the sealing ship Bloodhound built in 1873 in Dundee. She was purchased in 1874 for the British Arctic Expedition of 1875–1876 and later served as a store ship. Discovery was sold in 1902, reverting to the name Bloodhound and her previous sealing trade. The ship was wrecked in Newfoundland in 1917.
- ^ Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia, by William James Mills, ABC-CLIO, 2003, ISBN 978-1-57607-422-0
- ^ Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.