[DISCOVERY EXPEDITION]. An original sailor?s silk cap ribbon or tallies from the RRS Discovery. Circa 1901. Length, 34 ??. The RRS Discovery launched in 1901, carrying Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton on their first journey to the Antarctic, known as the Discovery Expedition (officially the British National Antarctic Expedition) which would achieve a Furthest South of 82 degrees 18 minutes and determine that Antarctica was indeed a continent.