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john sefton
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Bransfield RRS

Post by john sefton » Mon May 03, 2010 4:44 pm

Classed as. “100 Al* ice strengthened" the 4816 ton RRS BRANSFIELD was launched in 1970 having been built at Leith. A. diesel-electric propelled vessel measuring 100m in length, the
RRS BRANSFIELD is well equipped for her work as a floating scientific research station with an excellent cargo carrying ability for relieving all the British Antarctic Survey bases scattered throughout the Antarctic and Sub—Antarctic.
Whilst on her fifth voyage south to the 1979-1980 "season'', RRS Bransfield twice hit submerged rocks when in Marguerite Bay, en route to Rothera Base. She developed a twenty degree list but there were no casualties to the eighty people on board (50 of them crew) and she was rescued by HMS ENDURANCE, which at the time of her accident was 1200 miles distant at Port Stanley.
On the stamp, RRS BRANSFIELD is pictured in Cumberland. Bay, South Georgia.

Log Book September 1982

Falk Is Dep SG87A
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aukepalmhof
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Re: Bransfield RRS

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon May 03, 2010 9:51 pm

Built as a research vessel under yard No 508 by Robb Caledon Shipbuilders Ltd., Leith, U.K. for the National Environment Council, U.K.
04 September 1970 launched as the BRANSFIELD.
Tonnage 4,816 grt, 1,577 net, 3,440 dwt., dim. 99.2 x 18.4 x 6.7m. (draught)
Powered, diesel electric by two diesel engines each 6,400 bhp, speed 13.2 knots.
Range 55 days on two engines, 90 days on one engine.
Crew 13 officers and 25 passengers and accommodation for 59 passengers or researchers.
December 1970 completed.

After her last return from the Antarctic in May 1999 was she sold to Rieber Shipping A/S, Bergen, Norway as part of a long-term charter of her replacement RRS ERNEST SHACKLETON ex POLAR QUEEN.
In real she was sold to Igenship Trading L.L.C., St Vincent and renamed IGENPEARL.

Most probably named so for her last voyage to the breakers, she arrived 25 January 2000 at Mumbai, India for scrapping.

Falkland Dep. 1980 £1 sg87A scott 1L51.also on 1985 £1 sg? scott1L51a.
British Ant. Terr 1997 40p sg?, scott251. 2000 37p sg?, scott291.

Marine News 2000/221. Watercraft Philately. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz
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D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen
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Re: Bransfield RRS

Post by D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen » Tue Jan 09, 2018 3:57 pm

Lbp:90m. Depth:9.50m. 2-8 cyl. Mirrlees/Blackstone diesels:6400 hp. (4708 kW.) 2 E.M. each:2500 hp. (1839 kW.) 1 derrick SWL:15 ton, 1 crane SWL:5 tons, IMO.7029079.

(B.A.T. 2017, 76 p. StG.?)
LR88/89 + 97/98
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