Research vessel Culver
Date
1938
Creator
Unknown, Photographer
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 198mm
width (print): 250mm
height (mount): 303mm
width (mount): 407mm
width (print): 250mm
height (mount): 303mm
width (mount): 407mm
Subject
Content object
Description
The auxiliary ketch Culver in Plymouth Sound, showing the port side of the vessel with a small boat alongside. Behind, Drake’s Island and Mount Edgecumbe.
Culver, an 83 foot teak-built ketch was purchased in 1937 under the direction of a sub-committee of the Royal Society’s Bermuda Oceanographic Committee and equipped for working as a floating marine laboratory.
A contemporary account of the ship appears as ‘The Bermuda Oceanographical Committee, by S.W.Kemp, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, vol. 1 October 1938, pp.104-112. The article states that: ‘As her distinguishing flag the Culver has the arms of the Society in red on a white ground and the burgee is white with the letters R.S. in red’.
An original typescript caption reads: ‘2. “CULVER” with Drake’s Island and Mount Edgcumbe in background’.
Stanley Wells Kemp (1882-1945) British zoologist and oceanographer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1931.
Culver, an 83 foot teak-built ketch was purchased in 1937 under the direction of a sub-committee of the Royal Society’s Bermuda Oceanographic Committee and equipped for working as a floating marine laboratory.
A contemporary account of the ship appears as ‘The Bermuda Oceanographical Committee, by S.W.Kemp, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, vol. 1 October 1938, pp.104-112. The article states that: ‘As her distinguishing flag the Culver has the arms of the Society in red on a white ground and the burgee is white with the letters R.S. in red’.
An original typescript caption reads: ‘2. “CULVER” with Drake’s Island and Mount Edgcumbe in background’.
Stanley Wells Kemp (1882-1945) British zoologist and oceanographer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1931.
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