RRS Bransfield information

RRS Bransfield was an ice-strengthened cargo vessel, purpose-built for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). RRS Bransfield was designed by consultants...

commemorative stamp in Bransfield's honour, but as no likeness of him could be found, the stamp depicted instead RRS Bransfield, an Antarctic surveying...

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...

RRS Discovery is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built in Dundee, Scotland for Antarctic research. Launched in 1901, she was the last traditional...

of the resupply ship (planned RRS Sir David Attenborough, until 2020 RRS Ernest Shackleton, before 1999, RRS Bransfield) in late December. This is followed...

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...

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...

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...

James Aldridge Boatswain, RRS Bransfield. Andrew David Alsop Aircraft Pilot. Michael Jeremy Stuart Burgan Chief Officer RRS John Biscoe. Nicholas levers...

Steamship Company 457 MV Konini cargo 1957 Union Steamship Company 508 RRS Bransfield ice-strengthened research vessel 4 September 1970 British Antarctic...

-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...

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,...

ship, the RRS Sir David Attenborough, for support of Arctic and Antarctic research operations, and other logistical work. It replaced RRS James Clark...

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...

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...

culpability of certain expedition members, remains controversial. After RRS Discovery's return from the Antarctic in 1904, Captain Robert Falcon Scott...

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...

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...

The expedition ship RRS Discovery in the Antarctic alongside the Great Ice Barrier, now known as the Ross Ice Shelf...

performance of the whaling ships was also crucial in the decision to build RRS Discovery in Dundee. Another, particularly British, impetus more closely...

/ -69.35778; -2.24722. Meanwhile, on 30 January 1820, Irishman Edward Bransfield sighted Trinity Peninsula, the northernmost point of the Antarctic mainland...

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,...

Researcher RRS Sir David Attenborough RRS Discovery (2012) – A Royal Research Ship operated by the Natural Environment Research Council RRS Ernest Shackleton...