Attention is drawn to the existence of a harpoon-gun putatively from H. M. S. Challenger, a ship whose three-and-a-half-year circumnavigation of the globe (1872–1876), marked the beginning of the science of oceanography. The harpoon gun in question was made by Dundee shipsmith and harpoon-gun maker, David Neave. Only a few other examples of his work are known to exist and this example with a Remington rolling-block action is unusual for a British harpoon gun. It is proposed that it came to Millport's Marine Station via links Sir John Murray (1841–1914) had with the Marine Biological Association of the West of Scotland.

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与 HMS Challenger 相关的邓迪制造的鱼叉枪

人们注意到可能来自 HMS Challenger 的鱼叉枪的存在，这艘船的三年半环球航行（1872-1876 年）标志着海洋科学的开始。有问题的鱼叉枪是由邓迪造船厂和鱼叉枪制造商大卫·尼夫制造的。已知他的作品只有少数其他例子存在，而这个带有雷明顿滚动阻挡动作的例子对于英国鱼叉枪来说是不寻常的。建议它通过约翰·默里爵士（1841-1914 年）与苏格兰西部海洋生物协会的联系来到米尔波特的海洋站。