Research vessel Culver
Date
1938
Creator
Unknown, Photographer
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 249mm
width (print): 199mm
height (mount): 303mm
width (mount): 407mm
width (print): 199mm
height (mount): 303mm
width (mount): 407mm
Subject
Content object
Description
The auxiliary ketch Culver in Plymouth Sound, showing the stern and starboard side of the vessel in near silhouette. Behind, Staddon Heights, Devon. The ship’s ‘R.S.’ pennant and blue ensign flag are displayed.
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: ‘5. “CULVER” with Staddon Heights 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: ‘5. “CULVER” with Staddon Heights 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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