# HMS Discovery

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For other ships called *Discovery*, see [Discovery](/source/Discovery_(disambiguation)#Marine).

Eleven ships of the [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) and a reserve shore establishment of the [Royal Canadian Navy](/source/Royal_Canadian_Navy) have borne the name **HMS/HMCS *Discovery***, while ships of other branches have also used the name:

- [HMS *Discovery* (1600)](/source/HMS_Discovery_(1600)) was a [discovery vessel](/source/Survey_vessel) in service between 1600 and 1620.
- [HMS *Discovery* (1651)](/source/HMS_Discovery_(1651)) was a 20-gun ship purchased in 1651 and burnt in 1655.
- [HMS *Discovery* (1692)](/source/HMS_Discovery_(1692)) was a 6-gun [ketch](/source/Ketch) launched in 1692 and broken up in 1705.
- [HMS *Discovery* (1719)](/source/HMS_Discovery_(1719)) was a discovery [sloop](/source/Sloop) lost in the Arctic in 1719.
- [HMS *Discovery* (1741)](/source/HMS_Discovery_(1741)) was a 6-gun storeship purchased in 1741 and sold in 1750.
- [HMS *Discovery* (1774)](/source/HMS_Discovery_(1774)) was an 8-gun discovery vessel launched in 1774 as the civilian [collier](/source/Collier_(ship)) *Diligence*. She was acquired in 1775, and accompanied [HMS *Resolution*](/source/HMS_Resolution_(1771)) on Captain [James Cook](/source/James_Cook)'s third voyage of exploration from 1776 to 1780. She became a dockyard transport in 1781 and was broken up in 1797.
- [HMS *Discovery* (1789)](/source/HMS_Discovery_(1789)) was a 10-gun [sloop](/source/Sloop-of-war) launched and purchased in 1789. She was commanded by Captain [George Vancouver](/source/George_Vancouver) on his voyage of exploration from 1791 to 1795. She was converted to a [bomb vessel](/source/Bomb_vessel) in 1799, a [convict ship](/source/Convict_ship) in 1818 and was broken up in 1834.
- [HMS *Discovery* (1800)](/source/HMS_Discovery_(1800)) was a survey vessel in service in 1800 and sold in 1828.
- HMS *Discovery* was to have been a wood screw [gunvessel](/source/Gunvessel). She was ordered in 1861 but was cancelled in 1863.
- [HMS *Discovery* (1874)](/source/HMS_Discovery_(1874)) was a wood screw storeship, formerly the civilian *Bloodhound*, purchased in 1874. She was commanded by Captain [George Nares](/source/George_Nares) during the [British Arctic Expedition](/source/British_Arctic_Expedition) between 1875 and 1876. She was sold in 1902.
- [HMS *Discovery*](/source/RRS_Discovery) was a purpose-built survey ship launched in 1901. She was commanded by Captain [Robert Falcon Scott](/source/Robert_Falcon_Scott) during the [Discovery Expedition](/source/Discovery_Expedition) to the Antarctic in 1901, and was sold in 1905. She was re-designated [RRS](/source/Royal_Research_Ship) (Royal Research Ship) *Discovery* in 1923, repurchased in 1929 as a [training ship](/source/Training_ship), and was handed over for preserving as a [museum ship](/source/Museum_ship) in 1979.
- [HMCS *Discovery*](/source/HMCS_Discovery), the Vancouver [stone frigate](/source/Stone_frigate) of the [Canadian Forces Naval Reserve](/source/Canadian_Forces_Naval_Reserve), established as a volunteer half-company of the [Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve](/source/Royal_Canadian_Naval_Volunteer_Reserve) in 1924 and commissioned as *Discovery* in 1941.

## Battle honours

- [Portland 1653](/source/Battle_of_Portland)
- [Copenhagen 1801](/source/Battle_of_Copenhagen_(1801))[1]

## See also

- [HMS *Discovery II*](/source/HMS_Discovery_II), a World War II armed boarding vessel
- Space Shuttle *[Discovery](/source/Space_Shuttle_Discovery),* primarily named after Capt. Cook's ship of exploration.

## References

1. ["Volume 2, Part 1: Extant Commissioned Ships"](http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/ol-lo/vol-tom-2/par1/discover-eng.asp). National Defence and the Canadian Forces. 7 July 2006. Retrieved 10 February 2021.[dead link]

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