| No ship in Victoria's navy was as well supplied with wine, pickles, and preserves as Challenger. |
| And NASA named a day of remembrance to honor the astronauts killed in the Colombia, Challenger and the Apollo disaster. |
| It was indeed the coldest day that Challenger had yet experienced and in the violent seas she lay to under bare poles, just trying to survive. |
| By the beginning of December Challenger was newly rigged, freshly caulked and painted, and fitted with a new deck house for the comfort of the Scientifics. |
| Then it shut down all the thrusters on the starboard side, leaving the 24-foot Deepsea Challenger spinning in a circle. |
| The Challenger crew sighted their first iceberg on February 10, 1874, after weathering a storm of such ferocity that the ship was forced to run under treble-reefed topsails. |
