Scientist Mike Thurston weighing a fish on the forecastle on board the Royal Research Ship Discovery (1962) while at sea. The fish was caught using a longline.
Scientist Mike Thurston weighing a fish on the forecastle on board the Royal Research Ship Discovery (1962) while at sea. He is using a balance beam scale and the fish was caught using a longline. This is Slide 23 of Captain Henry P. Bird's lecture titled "Deep Oceans", about his service as Third Officer on board the Discovery from 15 December 1971 to 16 April 1972. The ship was on a Marine Biological Cruise to the seas off Cape Bojador in Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara), off the southern tip of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands, around the Cape Verde Islands and along the West African Shelf off Nouakchott in Mauretania. She sailed from Barry on 4 February and returned on 16 April 1972. The lecture consists of 78 slides.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT15810 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Bird, Henry P. |
| Vessels: | Discovery (1962) |
| Date made: | February to April 1972 |
| People: | Thurston, Mike |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Bird Collection |
| Measurements: | Image: 28 mm x 28 mm;Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm |