Xerox copies of the Crew List of a 1902 voyage of the DISCOVERY, with a photocopy of a typed cover page; a typescript list of Ships Built in Ipswich, 1700-1749; a note about British Trade with Buenos Aires, between October 1817 and May 1818, both by A.G.E. Jones.

Administrative / biographical background
RRS Discovery was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in Britain. Designed for Antarctic research, it was launched as a Royal Research Ship (RRS) in 1901. Its first mission was the British National Antarctic Expedition, carrying Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton on their first, successful journey to the Antarctic, known as the Discovery Expedition.