Sir David Attenborough (IMO: 9798222, Callsign ZDLQ3 ) is a Research Vessel registered and sailing under the flag of Falkland Islands. Her gross tonnage is 15000 and deadweight is 5000. Sir David Attenborough was built in 2018/2020.. Her container capacity is 0 TEU. The ship is operated by British Antarctic Survey .
RRS Sir David Attenborough, Britain’s new polar ship, heads out for the open seas
The state-of-the-art polar research vessel will carry out ice trials in the Arctic in early 2021, before a maiden voyage to the Antarctic in November later that year
Britain’s new polar ship, the Sir David Attenborough, headed for the open seas on 3 November to start trials after a storm delay, before making its maiden voyage to Antarctica next year for climate change research.
The 200 million pound ($260 million), state-of-the-art, polar research vessel, with its red hull and a bright yellow crane on its stern, sailed past Liverpool’s historic docks and out into the sea, headed for north Wales. Officially the ship is named after the veteran BBC naturalist David Attenborough, but to many Britons it will always be known as “Boaty McBoatface”, after that suggestion topped a public poll to name the vessel in 2016.
Its departure from Liverpool was delayed by around a week due to stormy weather, a British Antarctic Survey (BAS) spokeswoman told Reuters, with calm seas preferred to test and calibrate its specialist equipment for the first time. It will remain at sea for just under a week before berthing in Holyhead, Wales, once the current Welsh coronavirus lockdown ends on November 9, the spokeswoman added.
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