RRS Bransfield

RRS Bransfield

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

History

RRS "Bransfield" was designed by consultants Graham & Woolnaugh of Liverpool for NERC, and built by Robb Caledon Shipbuilders Ltd, Leith. She was named after Edward Bransfield RN (1785-1852), who discovered the north west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, roughly surveyed the South Shetland Islands, claiming King George Island and Clarence Island for Great Britain. Bransfield was the first man to chart part of the Antarctic mainland.

This was the second vessel to be named after Bransfield by BAS or its predecessors. The first was HMS Bransfield, the original expedition ship for Operation Tabarin, a secret British expedition to Antarctica during World War Two. It established the first permanent British bases on the Antarctic Peninsula and became the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1945 (renamed BAS in 1962). This vessel was a wooden Norwegian sealer built in 1918 as the Veslekari, and renamed for the expedition. [cite web| url=http://www.warsailors.com/freefleet/norfleetv.html#veslekari| title=Norwegian Merchant Fleet 1939-1945| accessdate=2007-08-30] Her service with Tabarin was inglorious - she proved to be unseaworthy, and had to be replaced before the expedition left English waters in November 1943.

In 1993/94, while in the Weddell Sea she suffered an engine room fire. [ [http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/documents/cruise/JR039-a-report.pdf Cruise Report] ]

In May 1999, she was sold to Rieber Shipping A/S as part of the contract for the long-term charter of her replacement, RRS "Ernest Shackleton".

ervice

RRS "Bransfield" was BAS's main supply vessel from 1970/71 to 1998/99, and also had limited facilities for on-board research. She represented NERC in the Review of the Fleet at Spithead in 1977, held to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's jubilee.

For much of her career her joint Masters were John Cole and Stewart Laurence. [cite web| url=http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=123683| title=Cole Channel| publisher=Antarctic Gazetteer| accessdate=2007-08-30] [cite web| url=http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/basclub/fuchsmedal2003.html| title=Stuart Lawrence - Fuchs Medallist 2003| publisher=BAS Club| accessdate=2007-08-30]

External links

* Photo of the ship http://www.sln.org.uk/wow/images/692.jpg

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