Global InformationRV Corella information
 RV Corella
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| History | |
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  United Kingdom | |
| Name |
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| Owner |
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| Builder | Brooke Marine (Lowestoft) |
| Yard number | 1482 |
| Laid down | 1964[1] |
| Launched | 1967 |
| Commissioned | 20 April 1967[1] |
| Decommissioned | April 2012 |
| In service | 1967-1983 |
| Out of service | 15 December 1982 |
| Renamed | January 1983 |
| Homeport | Lowestoft |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Scrapped, Grenaa - Denmark, April 2012[2] |
| General characteristics | |
| Type |
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| Displacement | 459 t (452 long tons)[3] |
| Length | 41.38 m (135 ft 9 in)[3] |
| Beam | 9.75 m (32 ft 0 in)[3] |
| Draught | 4.13 m (13 ft 7 in)[3] |
| Propulsion | 2 x MAKE: Allen BHP: 520 each |
| Speed | 10.5 knots (12.1 mph; 19.4 km/h)[3] |
| Complement | Up to 16 crew[3] |
RV Corella (LT767) was a fisheries research vessel that was operated by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (United Kingdom) - Directorate of Fisheries, now known as the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) between 1967 and 1983.[4]
She was constructed by Brooke Marine in Lowestoft, and subsequently operated out of the port of Lowestoft.
In 1983 the RV Corella was sold to Warbler Shipping and renamed MV Dawn Sky. In 1985 she was converted into an offshore supply vessel and one of her two distinctive A-frame winches was removed. Between 1986 and 1988 the Dawn Sky was re-chartered for government fisheries survey work, both by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (Scotland) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (United Kingdom).
Warbler Shipping was bought by Putford Enterprises (of Great Yarmouth) in 1994, subsequently part of the American supply ship operators Seacor Holdings.[3] The MV Dawn Sky was renamed MV Putford Sky and was used by BP on the Amethyst gas field off Yorkshire. She was sold to Fornæs Shipbreaking for scrapping in Denmark,[2] leaving Great Yarmouth 6 April 2012 on her final voyage to Grenaa, 45 years after she had been constructed.
- ^ a b MAFF (1992). The Directorate of Fisheries Research: Its Origins and Development. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Lowestoft. 332pp.
- ^ a b PUTFORD SKY - IMO 6607393 - The last remnants of Putford Sky at Fornæs Shipbreaking Ltd. Grenaa . http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1546745 Accessed 19/06/2018
- ^ a b c d e f g Ship Details: Putford Sky – Seacor Marine. http://www.seacormarine.com/pdf/20_Survivor_SBSV_Putford_Sky.pdf Accessed 19/06/2018
- ^ Cefas (2014). Trawling Through Time: Cefas Science and Data 1902-2014. Lowestoft: Cefas. p. 5.