The Voyage of Discovery II, 1950-51

Before the paper the President (Mr. J. M. Wordie) said: Dr. Herdman has probably had more experience of voyaging in the Antarctic Ocean than anyone else at the present time. He joined the staff of the Discovery Committee in 1925, and he has told me this evening that he remembers clearly the interview he had with the Discovery Committee when he was appointed, and his nervousness on that occasion. He really had no need to be nervous because no one has been a more consistently loyal member of the staff of the Discovery Committee, or shown greater ability in carrying out oceanographical work on board ship than has Dr. Herdman. He sailed in the old Discovery in 1925-27 and the voyage he will describe to-night is his fourth with Discovery II, each voyage into the Antarctic lasting about eighteen months. Dr. Herdman himself knows more about sea ice in practice than does anyone else

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