Poster of Cast and Crew in Great British Ships - Season 2 - Episode 3 - Scott & Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure: The Discovery

Great British Ships - Season 2 - Scott & Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure: The Discovery (Episode 3)

Plot: Rob Bell boards the ship that kick started the age of polar exploration as he looks at the history of RRS Discovery, the world's first purpose-built scientific vessel. Heading to the Victorian shipbuilding capital of Dundee, Rob finds out why this was the only place in Britain that could make a ship capable of taking on the formidable ice floes of Antarctica, and tells the story of how a chance meeting in London would define the course of polar exploration
Episode Aired On:
Saturday, November 2 2019
5 years ago