Scientists and the bosun deploying the bottom dredge over the stern on the shelter deck on board the Royal Research Ship Discovery (1962) while at sea.

Scientists and the bosun deploying the bottom dredge over the stern on the shelter deck on board the Royal Research Ship Discovery (1962) while at sea. The photographer is looking aft from just to port of the deck crane. This is Slide 40 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 Bogador in Spanish 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.

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ID:	PCT15827
Type:	Roll film negative
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Bird, Henry P.
Vessels:	Discovery (1962)
Date made:	February - April 1972
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Bird Collection
Measurements:	Image: 28 mm x 28 mm;Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm

Scientists and the bosun deploying the bottom dredge over the stern on the shelter deck on board the Royal Research Ship Discovery (1962) while at sea.

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