Nine days after the plans were published arrangements were made to purchase the steamship _Terra Nova_, the largest and strongest of the old Scottish whalers. The original date chosen for sailing was August 1, 1910, but owing to the united efforts of those engaged upon the fitting out and stowing of the ship, she was able to leave Cardiff on June 15. Business, however, prevented Captain Scott from leaving England until a later date, and in consequence he sailed in the _Saxon_ to South Africa, and there awaited the arrival of the _Terra Nova_.
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Name Rank, &c. Robert Falcon Scott _Captain, C.V.O., R.N._ Edward R. G. R. Evans _Lieutenant, R.N._ Victor L. A. Campbell _Lieutenant, R.N. (Emergency List)_ Henry R. Bowers _Lieutenant, R.I.M._ Lawrence E. G. Oates _Captain 6th Inniskilling Dragoons._ G. Murray Levick _Surgeon, R.N._ Edward L. Atkinson _Surgeon, R.N., Parasitologist._
Edward Adrian Wilson _B.A., M.B. (Cantab), Chief of the Scientific Staff, and Zoologist._ George C. Simpson _D.Sc., Meteorologist._ T. Griffith Taylor _B.A., B.Sc., B.E., Geologist._ Edward W. Nelson _Biologist._ Frank Debenham _B.A., B.Sc., Geologist._ Charles S. Wright _B.A., Physicist._ Raymond E. Priestley _Geologist._ Herbert G. Ponting _F.R.G.S, Camera Artist._ Cecil H. Meares _In Charge of Dogs._ Bernard C. Day _Motor Engineer._ Apsley Cherry-Garrard _B.A., Asst. Zoologist._ Tryggve Gran _Sub-Lieutenant, Norwegian N.R., B.A., Ski Expert._
W. Lashly _Chief Stoker, R.N._ W. W. Archer _Chief Steward, late R.N._ Thomas Clissold _Cook, late R.N._ Edgar Evans _Petty Officer, R.N._ Robert Forde _Petty Officer, R.N._ Thomas Crean _Petty Officer, R.N._ Thomas S. Williamson _Petty Officer, R.N._ Patrick Keohane _Petty Officer, R.N._ George P. Abbott _Petty Officer, R.N._ Frank V. Browning _Petty Officer, 2nd class, R.N._ Harry Dickason _Able Seaman, R.N._ F. J. Hooper _Steward, late R.N._ Anton Omelchenko _Groom._ Demetri Gerof _Dog Driver._
Harry L. L. Pennell _Lieutenant, R.N._ Henry E. de P. Rennick _Lieutenant, R.N._ Wilfred M. Bruce _Lieutenant, R.N.R._ Francis R. H. Drake _Asst. Paymaster, R.N. (Retired), Secretary and Meteorologist in Ship._ Denis G. Lillie _M.A., Biologist in Ship._