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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: SS Terra Nova (1884-1943)
    sub title: Whaler, Sealer and Polar Exploration Ship
  name:
    name part: C. Tarver, Michael.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ProQuest (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  table of contents: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Author's Note -- Prologue -- Foreword by HRH Princess Anne -- Introduction by Sir Ranulph Fiennes -- 1 Into the Evening of a Passing Age -- Introduction -- The British Whaling Industry and its Ships -- The Shipyard of Alexander Stephen & Sons, Dundee -- The Launch of the SS Terra Nova and her Early Years -- 2 Across the Atlantic and New Owners -- The Ambitions and Achievements of Benjamin Bowring and his Family -- The Founding of a Shipping and Trading Company -- 'Terra Australis Incognita'
  table of contents: 3 From the North Atlantic to the Antarctic -- Relief Ship for the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901 -- Under Dundee Command Again and First Mission to Antarctica -- 4 From the Antarctic to the Arctic -- Under US Ownership and Norwegian Command -- Rescue Mission to an Arctic Archipelago -- Return from a Successful Arctic Mission -- Return to Newfoundland for Sealing Duties -- 5 Her Name Will be Remembered Forever -- Expedition Ship for the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910 -- Fitting Out in West India Dock, London -- Preparations and the British Departure from Cardiff
  table of contents: Around the World to Lyttelton, New Zealand -- 6 Into the Southern Ocean -- Final Preparation and Departure from Port Chalmers, New Zealand -- A Storm in the 'Furious Fifties' -- Through the Pack Ice and into the Ross Sea -- Arrival at McMurdo Sound and a Change of Command -- 7 First Role Complete -- Expedition Base Established, Scientific Parties Deployed -- A Surprise in the Bay of Whales -- Scientific Parties Landed and the Return to New Zealand -- 8 New Zealand Refit and Hydrographic Surveys -- Summary of Expedition Relief Voyages -- First Return Voyage to New Zealand -- 'The Pumps Again!'
  table of contents: Winter Cruise and Survey Work -- 9 Return to Antarctica -- First Relief Voyage -- McMurdo Sound: Relief and Attempted Relief of Scientific Parties -- Second Return Voyage to New Zealand and More Survey Duties -- Another Refit in New Zealand and a Tragedy at Admiralty Bay -- 10 To Antarctica -- The Final Relief -- Last Passage to Antarctica -- Cape Evans and the Tragic News -- Last Departure for New Zealand and Goodbye to Antarctica -- 11 The Voyage Home -- The Passage to Britain -- Return to Expedition Home Port -- Summary of British Antarctic Expedition Programme, 1910-13
  table of contents: Report on the Biological Work Carried Out Aboard by Dennis G. Lillie, MA -- Extract from Report: 'Outfit and Preparation' by Commander E.R.G.R. Evans -- 12 Newfoundland and Sealing -- Thirty Years with the 'Wooden-Walls' -- Rendering Assistance at a Maritime Disaster -- Portrait of a Legendary Sealing Master, Captain Abram Kean OBE -- A First-Hand Experience of the 'Greatest Hunt in the World' -- 13 Chartered for War Duties -- Refit and Role as a Coastal Trader -- On Charter During Wartime -- Ice Damage to the Stern: The Last Voyage and an SOS Call -- Memories and Recollections
  note: Description based upon print version of record.
  note: Research and More Recollections
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    geographic code: t------
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Scott, Robert Falcon
      name part: 1868-1912
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Terra Nova (Ship)
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition (1910-1913)
  subject:
    geographic: Polar regions
    topic: Discovery and exploration
    topic: British
  classification: G875.S35 T37 2020
  classification: 919.8904
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The SS Terra Nova (1884-1943) : Whaler, Sealer and Polar Exploration Ship
    name:
      name part: C. Tarver, Michael
    origin info:
      publisher: Chicago : The History Press,c2020
  identifier: 9780750995511
  identifier: 0750995513
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 200801
    record change date: 20250816204142.0
    record identifier: in00004435422