Ship's Bell: Morning

Production date
1902
 Description
Bell cast in brass with moulded rim and filled lettering over a semi-circle reading SY "MORNING" 1902 RGS, clapper with rope sally, secured to a brass bracket for bulkhead
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Collecting unit
Antarctica
Provenance details
Scott's relief ship, the Morning was originally a wooden screw-assisted whaler built in 1871 by Svend Föyn at Tönsberg, Norway. Expedition sponsor Clements Markham purchased the ship in 1902, installed a new engine, and had her comprehensively refitted for Antarctic waters by Messrs. Green of Blackwall at cost in excess of £7000.The British National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1904 departed London in the summer of 1901 on the Discovery. After a brief stop in New Zealand, they entered the Ross Sea and made their first discovery, Edward VII Land, in January 1902. Under the command of William Colbeck, the Morning sailed from East India Dock in July that year with a full cargo of food and equipment for Scott's party. She arrived in the Ross Sea on January 25, 1903 though was unable to berth beside Discovery and so the stores were sledged across to Scott. For fear of becoming trapped in the ice, the Morning promptly departed. The Discovery was frozen into the sea ice in the first winter and so the Morning, along with the Terra Nova, returned to McMurdo Sound in January 1904 to resupply the party. Once the Discovery broke free from the ice, the three ships were able to return together. Colbeck commanded both voyages along with Edward Evans as navigation officer. Evans would later return to Antarctica in Scott's last expedition, 1910-1913. Having returned to England, Markham promptly sold Morning to Robert Kinnes who put her back into service as a whaler based in Dundee. She remains on record at the start of the World War I
Measurements
Dimensions L x W: whole: 715 x 257mm
Depth: whole: 310mm
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Associated person notes
Colbeck commanded SY Morning for the relief voyages of the British National Antarctic Expedition.
Teddy Evans as the second officer and navigator of SY Morning during the Antarctic relief voyages of the BNAE 1901-04.
Shackleton was invalided home from Antarctica with scurvy during the first relief voyage of the SY Morning in 1903.
Associated place
Antarctica
Associated event
British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04 (Discovery)
Other id
1681
EQRC10070
Accession number
2010.10.1

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Originally built as a Norwegian whaler built 1871 named the "Morganen." It was acquired by the British National Antactic Expedition in 1901 and went on to supply Scott on his 1901-4 expedition. The name was translated into English and she became the "Morning."Lyttelton became her base port here.

- Lex Calder

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