Emma Penguin Cuddly Toy

Emma Penguin is the adorable mascot for the RRS Discovery. She has been on many an adventure - with friends taking her from the Antarctic to the Arctic and making many new friends on the way (including several penguins and even a polar bear!)

We are delighted to now offer you the chance to take home your very own Emma which has been designed exclusively for Dundee Heritage Trust by Keel Toys and features a scarf embroidered with the RRS Discovery logo.

Emma carries her very own message on her tag: "Hello! My name is Emma! Captain Scott visited me in Antarctica a long time ago and asked me to join his crew on Discovery. I have sailed to lots of exciting places and would now love to start a new adventure with you."

You can follow Emma's adventures on social media by searching #EmmaPenguin. What adventure will you take your very own Emma on? 

Voyages of Discovery

Ann Savours

Discovery was built for Captain Scott's first Antarctic expedition of 1901-04 and was launched more than 100 years ago in 1901, at Dundee. She had a long and intriguing career before her final voyage back there in 1986; this book tells the story of that chequered history.

Despite a number of expeditions to the Southern Ocean during the nineteenth century, the continent of Antarctica remained mostly a mystery by the turn of the twentieth. To remedy this the Royal Geographical Society proposed a National Antarctic Expedition, and a purpose-built vessel, the Discovery, was designed. Based on a whale ship, she was massively built to withstand ice, and was equipped with a hoisting propeller and rudder. She set sail from Cowes of 6 August and six months later was in the Ross Sea.

The southern sledging expedition, of Scott, Shackleton and Wilson, reached within 500 miles of the South Pole. In 1905, a year after her return to Britain, she was purchased by the Hudson's Bay Company and worked as a simple cargo carrier between London and their trading posts in the Canadian Arctic. Later she was sent to rescue Shackleton's men on Elephant Island. In 1925 she became a research ship, and in 1929-31 she was used to survey what became Australian Antarctic territory. Moored on the Thames Embankment, she survived the London blitz before returning to Dundee where she is now on permanent display at Discovery Point.

Paperback. 128 pages.