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The Terra Nova (Latin
for
Newfoundland) was built in
1884 for the
Dundee whaling and sealing fleet. She worked for 10 years in the annual
seal fishery in the
Labrador Sea proving her worth for many years before she was called
upon for expedition work. Terra Nova
was ideally suited to the polar regions. Her first work in the cause of
science was as a relief ship for the Jackson-Harmsworth Arctic Expedition
of 1894-1897.
In 1903, she
sailed in company with fellow ex-whaler
Morning to assist in freeing from
McMurdo Sound the
National Antarctic Expedition'sDiscovery, under Commander
Robert Falcon Scott.
