LAST OF THE "SCOTIA."

Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1916, Page 6

LAST OF THE "SCOTIA."

"A.MOUS SHIP DESTROYED. I Loudon, January 2S. The Scotia, a famous ship of international repute and of great historic interest to British science, has b.-.-n burned in the Bristol Channel and run ashore at Seillv. It will not be forgotten that the Diindoe whaler was actually the vessel thai, carried the. Scottish National Antarctic Expedition to the South Polar regions under the command of Dr. W. S. Bruce. Tlio Scotia, originally an old design, was reconstructed under the direction iof the famous naval and yacht constructor, the late Mr. (J. L. Watson, in the Ailso shipbuilding yard at Troon. She was an auxiliary barque-rigged steamer of only 21."i tons, but she was the most completely nceanographica'lyequipped of all the Antarctic ships that set sail about this period. The Scotia left Troon on November 2. 1002. and carried int oceanograpliical research in Antarctic seas, which had never been traversed before, as far as 72deg. S. Thereafter she wintered in the South Orkneys, where she was frozen In for eight months, and where Dr. Bruce and lis colleagues founded an important meteorological and magnetic station which the Argentine Government has thought so valuable that it has continued the work of that station up to the present day. Released from her winter quarters in November, lflnfi, the Seotiu once more sailed southward, and reaching latitude 7-ldeg. S., discovered anil ftiapped lot) miles of coastline of the Antarctic continent, and thereby added half a million square miles to tie then known Antarctic continent. During this I second voyage she carried out further I extensive oceanograpliical research, and returned to the Clyde at the end of I •Tuly,-lflo4. where Dr. Bruce and his oftl- J eers received the congratulations of King Edward on the completion of their "important additions to scientific knowledge and discoveries." as well as the congratulations of the Royal Scottish Geographical and other learned societies. Subsequently the Scotia was chartered bv the Board of Trade to carry out Ice observation in the North Atlantic after the wreck pi the Titanh>