M0000861: Model of the RSS Discovery

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Artic, model of S.S. Discovery.

Photograph of a model of the RSS Discovery, a British Antarctic research ship used in the 1901 British National Antarctic Expedition in a display case at the Natural History Museum, London. The photographs were taken in the early twentieth century.

28 July 1930

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.