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    RRS Bransfield was an ice-strengthened cargo vessel, purpose-built for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). RRS Bransfield was designed by consultants...
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  • commemorative stamp in Bransfield's honour, but as no likeness of him could be found, the stamp depicted instead RRS Bransfield, an Antarctic surveying...
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    on a long-term bareboat charter in August 1999 to replace RRS Bransfield. She was renamed RRS Ernest Shackleton in 2000, after the Anglo-Irish polar explorer...
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  • RRS Shackleton (1955) RRS John Biscoe (1956) RRS Discovery (1962) RRS Bransfield (1970) RRS Charles Darwin (1985) RRS Ernest Shackleton (1999) RRS James Clark Ross...
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    was named after the former BAS ship RRS Bransfield, itself named after the Irish sailor and explorer Edward Bransfield. There is a link corridor to the garage...
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    RRS Discovery is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built in Dundee, Scotland for Antarctic research. Launched in 1901, she was the last traditional...
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    Southern Thule. It was discovered by the British Antarctic Survey ship RRS Bransfield in 1977. The British protested but restricted their response to a diplomatic...
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  • vessels. His first expedition took place in 1975, as a crew member of the RRS Bransfield and HMS Endurance. Ferraz was instrumental in persuading the Brazilian...
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    of the resupply ship (planned RRS Sir David Attenborough, until 2020 RRS Ernest Shackleton, before 1999, RRS Bransfield) in late December. This is followed...
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  • Elliott, Master of the RRS John Biscoe from 1975, having also served in other officer positions on the John Biscoe and the RRS Bransfield from 1967. "Elliott...
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  • James Aldridge Boatswain, RRS Bransfield. Andrew David Alsop Aircraft Pilot. Michael Jeremy Stuart Burgan Chief Officer RRS John Biscoe. Nicholas levers...
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    Steamship Company 457 MV Konini cargo 1957 Union Steamship Company 508 RRS Bransfield ice-strengthened research vessel 4 September 1970 British Antarctic...
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  • -63.200; -56.667) is an exposed rocky headland on the southwest side of Bransfield Island in Antarctic Sound. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic...
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    Navy chartered Williams and dispatched with her with Lieutenant Edward Bransfield on board to survey the newly discovered islands and formally claim them...
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  • ship, the RRS Sir David Attenborough, for support of Arctic and Antarctic research operations, and other logistical work. It replaced RRS James Clark...
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    James Cook opening in 2014. The Royal Research Ship RRS James Cook was built in 2006 to replace the RRS Charles Darwin in the UK's Royal Research Fleet,...
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    Ross Bay, Ross Point, and Rossøya in the Arctic are all named after him RRS James Clark Ross, former name of Noosfera, a National Antarctic Scientific...
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    Antarctic exploration ships from the Heroic Age, 1897–1922 List of museum ships RRS Discovery, the only surviving Arctic exploration vessel besides Fram Amundsen...
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    ex-whaler SY Morning to assist in freeing the National Antarctic Expedition's RRS Discovery from McMurdo Sound. On return to Great Britain, expedition leader...
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    district nursing organisation, and clean water provision for the town. The RRS Discovery in Dundee, the ship Wilson first travelled to Antarctica on, is...
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    long-range maritime patrol aircraft used by the Royal Air Force, named after him RRS Ernest Shackleton, a research ship formerly operated by the British Antarctic...
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    The expedition ship RRS Discovery in the Antarctic alongside the Great Ice Barrier, now known as the Ross Ice Shelf...
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    Graham Land. The expedition was due to depart England in August 1914 aboard RRS Discovery, the ship of Crean's first mission to Antarctica. In February 1914...
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    culpability of certain expedition members, remains controversial. After RRS Discovery's return from the Antarctic in 1904, Captain Robert Falcon Scott...
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    incorporated many of the features of Discovery, as well as taking her name. RRS Discovery was commanded by Robert Falcon Scott and took part in the Discovery...
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    performance of the whaling ships was also crucial in the decision to build RRS Discovery in Dundee. Another, particularly British, impetus more closely...
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    of Scoresby, Victoria in Australia, which is 25 km southeast of the CBD RRS William Scoresby, an early-twentieth-century research vessel in the employ...
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    junior officer on Robert Falcon Scott's first Antarctic expedition aboard RRS Discovery. He had been sent home on the relief ship Morning in 1903 after...
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    January 1902, during Captain Scott's Discovery Expedition. A party from RRS Discovery landed by small boat on a stony beach area a little to the west...
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    who replaced Captain John King Davis for the second summer) on board the RRS Discovery, the ship previously used by Robert Falcon Scott. The BANZARE,...
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