| LC control no. | n 92083824 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Challenger (Ship : 1858-1878) |
| Variant(s) | Challenger (Ship : 1872-1876) H.M.S. Challenger (1858-1878) HMS Challenger (1858-1878) Her Majesty's Ship Challenger (1858-1878) |
| See also | Challenger Expedition (1872-1876) |
| Other standard no. | 713613 0000000097555387 293793253 Q119397 |
| Beginning date | 1858 |
| Ending date | 1878 |
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| Found in | Matkin, J. At sea with the scientifics, 1992: CIP t.p. (Challenger; Ship) Challenger oceanic website, Apr. 22, 2003 (H.M.S. Challenger; scientific voyage; 1872-1876) Wikipedia, July 23, 2023: HMS Challenger (Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Challenger, most famously the fifth, the survey vessel Challenger that carried the Challenger expedition from 1872 to 1876; The fifth HMS Challenger (1858) was a screw corvette launched in 1858, converted to a survey ship in 1872 in preparation for her famous voyage, hulked in 1880, and sold for scrap in 1921) HMS Challenger (1858) (HMS Challenger was a Pearl-class corvette of the Royal Navy launched on 13 February 1858 at the Woolwich Dockyard. She served the flagship of the Australia Station between 1866 and 1870. As part of the North America and West Indies Station, she took part in naval operations during the Second French intervention in Mexico, including the occupation of Veracruz, in 1862. She was assigned as the flagship of Australia Station in 1866, undertaking a punitive expedition in Fiji before leaving the station four years later. She was picked to undertake the first global marine research expedition: the Challenger expedition; The Challenger expedition, which embarked from Portsmouth, England on 21 December 1872, was a grand tour of the world covering 68,000 nautical miles (125,936 km) organized by the Royal Society in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh; Decommissioned: Chatham Dockyard, 1878. Fate: Broken for scrap, 1921) The Victorian Royal Navy website, July 23, 2023: Vessels, 1840-1880 > C > Challenger (HMS Challenger (1858); Type: Corvette; Launched: 13 February 1858; 1880: Hulk; 6 January 1921: Sold to J.B. Garnham for breaking up) Hedgpeth, Joel W. The voyage of the Challenger, in The scientific monthly, v. 63, No. 3 (Sep., 1946), viewed online via JSTOR, July 23, 2023: page 194 (H.M.S. Challenger) page 195 (built at Woolwich and launched on February 13, 1858) page 202 (Her Majesty's Ship Challenger) The H.M.S. Challenger, via Diatoms online website, July 23, 2023 (H.M.S. Challenger Expedition took place from December 7th 1872 to May 24th 1876; After the ship returned, she was used by the Coast Guard and as a drill ship for the Naval Reserves; she was then decommissioned in 1878, and became a 'floating warehouse' in 1883. The Challenger remained docked in the River Medway until 1921 until she was demolished) |
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