the Gulf Stream and the western half of the North Atlantic, the 

 Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean Sea and 

 the waters of the coasts of Africa and South America, and the Peru 

 Current. She is now getting old and is to be replaced by a new and 

 larger steam-turbine vessel incorporating the tradition, experience, 

 and advances of the past thirty years. 



The British Royal Research Ship Discovery II, formerly operated 

 bv the Discovery Investigations, and now by the National Institute 

 of Oceanography, was launched in 1929. She has made six voyages 



to the Antarctic, going to the ice-edge in winter and summer and 

 sometimes through heavy ice in the Ross, Weddell, and Bellings- 

 hausen seas. She is 234 feet overall with a beam of 36 feet and is 

 powered by a 1250 horsepower, triple-expansion steam engine. 

 Her cruising range could be about 10,000 miles, but it is generally 

 much less because of the time she spends hove-to for the scientific 

 work. During the past ten years she has been working mainly in 

 the North Atlantic on all aspects of oceanography in collaboration 

 with scientists from other countries. Like the Atlantis, she is getting 

 old and is being replaced by a larger ship. 



Discovery II, here seen leaving Woods Hole, 

 Massachusetts, belongs to Britain's National 

 Institute of Oceanography. She is 234 feet 

 overall and has a cruising range of about 

 10,000 miles. Like the Atlantis, of Woods 

 IHole, she is being replaced by a new ship. 



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