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TERRA NOVA being towed by the S.T. FALCON with various paddle steamers and tugs accompanying her.

S.Y. TERRA NOVA. Auxiliary barque of 764 tons, was built by Messrs Alexander Stephens and Sons, Dundee in 1884 for the whaling trade. Although nearly thirty years old at the time of Captain Scott's expedition, she was chosen for it because of her suitability for work in the Antarctic ice. Her beams were fourteen ins thick, her bows were nine feet of solid wood, and her stem was sheathed with iron plating.

P.S. GWALIA. Built in 1905 by John Brown at Clydebank, for the Barry Railway Company. Engines : Compound diagonal. Dimensions : 245 ft x 29 ft. 519 Gross Registered Tonnes. Sold to the Furness Railway Company in 1910 and renamed PS Lady Moyra. Used as a minesweeper in First World War. Sold after the war to the Tucker "Yellow Funnel Fleet", returning to the Bristol Channel. Sailed for three seasons for the Tucker operation before its financial failure. Purchased by P and A Campbell at auction in July 1922. Ran for the White Funnel fleet from 1923, being stationed on the South Coast from 1933, renamed PS Brighton Queen Sank at Dunkirk in 1940 on her second trip to evacuate troops back to the UK.

P.S. RAVENSWOOD (1891-1955). She became H.M.S. Ringtail from Sept 1943 to April 1944 when she was taken into service during World War II.