Captain Scott's Terra Nova:

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Captain Scott's Terra Nova:

Ceremony marks centenary of return of Captain Scott's Terra Nova to Cardiff docks

14 Jun 2013

Event saw pleasure boat retrace final moments of ship on return home from doomed South Pole expedition.

Scott had named Cardiff the ship’s home port because of support he had received from the city.

But Scott and four other members of his party – including the Gower’s Edgar Evans – were not aboard because they had died in freezing Antarctic temperatures.

The Royal Hotel had hosted a banquet for Scott and his team before they left for the Antarctic on June 15, 1910.

LINK: www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/ceremony-marks-centenary-return-captain-4316293

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The Captain Scott Room:

Captain Scott at the Royal Hotel

"On the 15th June we left the United Kingdom after a rattling good time in Cardiff" E. R. G. Evans, Lieut. R.N.,Commander

The Royal Hotel is indelibly linked to Captain Scott, the eternally famous Antarctic Explorer and his legendary, ill-fated British Antartic Expedition to the South Pole 1910-1913. It was in the hotel's Alexandra Room, subsequently renamed 'The Captain Scott Room' that the explorer and his men were entertained to their final public banquet on June 13th 1910, before leaving Cardiff aboard their ship the Terra Nova on the 15th.

The Captain Scott Room, orginally the magnificent Banqueting Room of the 1893 extension, has been preserved ever since, its rich oak panelling and sumptous decor as magnificent today as on that famous night when Cardiff gave Scott and his officers and men their rousing and unforgettable send-off.

LINK: www.royalhotelhistory.com/categories/captain-scott

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Cardiff in Context gallery:

12th June - 5th September 2013

On the 14th June 1913, Captain Scott's ship, the SS Terra Nova, returned to Cardiff Docks after its ill-fated Antarctic Expedition. Cardiff had been the ship's home port and had left the Docks three years previously.

To commemorate the centenary of the ship returning to Cardiff, the Cardiff Story Museum will be hosting the ship's figure head, on loan from Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, from 12 June to 5 September.

www.cardiffstory.com/content.asp?nav=174,260&parent_directory_id=2