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HMS Discovery was the Royal Navy ship in which George Vancouver explored the west coast of North America in his 1791-1795 expedition. While surveying the northern Pacific Ocean coast, Vancouver named Mount St. Helens after Alleyne Fitzherbert, 1st Baron St Helens.
Discovery was built at the Randall & Brents shipyard in London in 1789. She was named after the previous HMS ''Discovery'', one of the ships on James Cook's third voyage to the Pacific Ocean, on which Vancouver had served as a midshipman. She was ship-rigged, of 330 tons displacement, and had a complement of 100.
In 1799, Discovery was converted to a bomb vessel. She took part in the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801. Discovery was converted to a convict ship in 1818 and broken up in 1834.
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