This is the story of one of Britains most famous expedition ships put together from accounts recorded by men who sailed in her. It covers a sixty year history of the ship built at Dundee by a famous Scottish shipbuilding company for the late 19th century days of whaling & sealing before coal gas & electricity took over from animal oils in domestic & commercial use. The Terra Nova operated from her home port of Dundee & afterwards St. Johns Newfoundland when a sea-going career in the sealfishery during those times brought a hard way of life with many human losses & tragedies.