HMS Discovery (1874) to D Murray in February 1902. The 1901 research vessel, built for the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–1904), incorporated many of the features of "Discovery", as well as taking her name. RRS "Discovery" was commanded by Robert Falcon Scott and took part in the Discovery Investigations from 1924 to 1931. She is now on permanent display at Dundee. Subsequent Royal Research Ships, launched in 1929 and 1962, have also borne the name, as has Space Shuttle "Discovery". HMS Discovery (1874) HMS "Discovery" was a wooden screw storeship, formerly the whaling ship "Bloodhound". She was purchased in 1874 for the British
Ship-of-the-line captain Ship-of-the-line captain Captain (French: "capitaine de vaisseau"; German: "linienschiffskapitän" (Austro-Hungarian Navy), "Kapitän zur See" (German and the Royal Netherlands navies); Italian Navy: "capitano di vascello"; Spanish Navy: "capitán de navío"; Croatian Navy: "kapetan bojnog broda") is a rank that appears in several navies. The name of the rank derives from the fact the rank corresponded to command of a warship of the largest class, the ship-of-the-line, as opposed to smaller types (corvettes and frigates). It is normally above the rank of frigate captain. Captain is equivalent to the naval rank of captain in most of the Commonwealth navies and captain