A specimen camera and specialist equipment set up in a work room on board the Royal Research Ship Discovery (1962) while at sea.

A specimen camera and specialist equipment set up in a work room on board the Royal Research Ship Discovery (1962) while at sea. This room is on the shelter deck or the forecastle deck but the actual location is unknown. The photographer is looking outboard. This is Slide 67 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: PCT15854
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