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RRS Discovery II
RRS
Discovery II
was a
British
Royal Research Ship
which, during her operational lifetime of about 30 years, carried out considerable
hydrographical
and
marine biological
survey work in
Antarctic
waters and the
Southern Ocean
in the course of the
Discovery Investigations
research program. Built in
Port Glasgow
, launched in 1928 and completed in 1929, she was the first purpose-built
oceanographic
research vessel and was named after
Robert Falcon Scott
's 1901 ship,
RRS Discovery
.
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