2 Season
12 Episode
Great British Ships - Season 2 Episode 3 Scott & Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure: The Discovery
Rob Bell boards the ship that kick started the age of polar exploration as he looks at the history of RRS Discovery, the world's first purpose-built scientific vessel. Heading to the Victorian shipbuilding capital of Dundee, Rob finds out why this was the only place in Britain that could make a ship capable of taking on the formidable ice floes of Antarctica, and tells the story of how a chance meeting in London would define the course of polar exploration.
- Year : 2020
- Country : United Kingdom
- Genre : Documentary
- Studio : Channel 5
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- Cast : Rob Bell, Eric Grove, Paul Pattison, Joanna Thomas, Simon Potter, Robert Rumble
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