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john sefton
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James Clark Ross

Post by john sefton » Fri Sep 24, 2010 7:20 pm

RRS James Clark Ross (named after Admiral Sir James Clark Ross, R.N. ) was built by Swan Hunter Shipbuilders, Wallsend, UK and launched by H.M. The Queen on the 1st December 1990.

The vessel can steam at a steady two knots through level sea ice one metre thick. To assist passage through heavy pack ice a compressed air system rolls the ship from side to side freeing the passage. RRS James Clark Ross is equipped for geophysical studies, with a compressor bank to power a seismic air gun array, and large aft and starboard decks for scientific equipment deployed by aft and midships gantries. For biological studies, the vessel can deploy a wide range of sampling gear and benefits from modern underway instrumentation. The ship is designed with an extremely low noise signature to allow sensitive underwater acoustic equipment to operate effectively.
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The airmail postcard shows what appears to be the James Clark Ross in the background, but the hull is black?
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Re: James Clark Ross

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:29 pm

Built as polar supply and research vessel under yard No 132 by Swan Hunter Shipbuilding, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom, for the BAS.
01 December 1990 launched as the JAMES CLARK ROSS, christened by HM Queen Elizabeth II named after the English explorer James Clark Ross.
Tonnage 5,732 grt, 2,917 dwt, dim. 99.04 x 18.85 x 6.30m (draught).
Powered, diesel electric 8,500 shp. single shaft, speed 12 knots.
She can sail through 1 meter of ice with a speed of 2 knots.
Endurance over 50 days.
Ice strengthened.
September 1991 completed.

She was a replacement for JOHN BISCOE and handed over to BASS after delivery.
She was one of the most sophisticated Antarctic research and supply ships afloat, as well operating as a personnel and cargo carrier.
She is designed for extreme quietness to prevent background noise interfering with the performance of sensitive underwater research equipment.
Her research complex comprise nearly 400 square meters of wet and dry, and environmentally controlled laboratories, workshops, cool and cold rooms, plus a computer and data preparation suite.

2017 In service, same owners and name IMO No 8904496.


By this two stamps is given by the British Antarctic Terr, Post.
RRS James Clark Ross is also alongside, providing relief for Halley Research Station.
Named after Admiral Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., the RRS James Clark Ross was launched by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 1st December 1990 and sailed for her maiden Antarctic voyage on 26th October 1991. In the first stamp depicting the vessel alone, she is shown leaving Rothera Research Station in January 1998; in the second, she is on her first call to Signy Research Station, the UK’s summer-only facility in the South Shetland Islands, in 2007.
While both vessels have roles in scientific support and logistics, RRS James Clark Ross, with her advanced oceanographic research facilities, is the platform for the majority of the marine science undertaken by the UK. RRS Ernest Shackleton is primarily a logistic ship, re-supplying the UK’s Antarctic stations and undertaking occasional scientific and specialist tasking.
RRS James Clark Ross – celebrating 20 years since her maiden Antarctic voyage
For twenty years, the Royal Research Ship James Clark Ross has supported the British Antarctic Survey’s scientific and logistical operations in Antarctica. Named after Admiral Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., she was launched by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 1st December 1990 and sailed for her maiden Antarctic voyage on 26th October 1991.
During this first deployment, the JCR undertook the resupply of the UK’s Rothera and Signy Research Stations on the Antarctic Peninsula, being delayed for thirteen days on her first visit to Rothera due to heavy pack ice. She also carried out work supporting the clean-up of the old British base on Deception Island, the inspection of the old base in Admiralty Bay and supported geological landings near Rothera. Her first Christmas was spent at Faraday Research Station (subsequently transferred to Ukraine and renamed “Vernadsky”). The vessel also completed a full marine geophysics cruise, which lasted 35 days, before returning to the UK during the Antarctic winter.

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Re: James Clark Ross

Post by D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen » Sun May 22, 2016 5:54 pm

British Antarctic Territory 2014, £1, StG.?
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Re: James Clark Ross

Post by D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen » Tue Jan 09, 2018 7:41 pm

2-8 cyl. Wärtsila R32 diesels:8918 hp. (6560 kW.) 2-6 cyl. Wärtsila R22 diesels:2896 hp. (2130 kW.) 2 E.M. each 4247 hp. (3124 kW.) IMO.8904496.

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Re: James Clark Ross

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue Dec 14, 2021 8:53 pm

In March 2021 the RRS JAMES CLARK ROSS arrived in Harwich having completed its final season with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The ship’s five-and-a-half-month mission was to deliver scientific and operational staff to Antarctica and to resupply the UK stations in Antarctica for another year.
In 1991 the RRS JAMES CLARK ROSS became the first BAS vessel to be purpose-built as a science platform. Built by Swan Hunter Shipbuilders in the UK and launched by HM the Queen in 1990, she was primarily a marine research vessel for biological, oceanographic and geophysical cruises. She is equipped with a suite of laboratories and winch systems that allows scientific equipment to be deployed astern or amidships. During the northern summer, she supported Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) research, largely in the Arctic.
The RRS JAMES CLARK ROSS was named after Admiral Sir James Clark Ross, R.N. The vessel can steam at a steady two knots through level sea ice one meter thick. To assist passage through heavy pack ice, a compressed air system rolls the ship from side to side freeing the passage.
Her 30 years of service came at a time when the world is increasingly seeking answers to questions about the impacts of climate change, warming seas, and ocean acidification. In her three decades of service, she has seen some extraordinary achievements in all of these areas.
RRS JAMES CLARK ROSS has provided a world-leading floating platform for biological, oceanographic, and geophysical research. She contained some of Britain’s most advanced facilities for oceanographic research in both Antarctica and the Arctic.
Professor Dame Jane Francis, Director of BAS said “The RRS JAMES CLARK ROSS has been more than a workplace to her crew and those who sailed on her, it has been home. As we look forward to a new era with the RRS Sir David Attenborough, the JCR joins the fleet of former BAS research ships that helped change the way we understand our world.”
The RRS JAMES CLARK ROSS will be replaced with the RRS SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH and has been sold to the Ukrainian National Antarctic Scientific Centre. She has been renamed NOOSFERA and will continue to carry out important scientific investigations in the polar regions.
October 5, 2021 icebreaker JAMES CLARK ROSS arrived in Odesa.
On October 29, 2021, the ship has renamed the NOOSPHERE, which connects it closely with the Ukrainian Antarctic Station, as the study of the biosphere of Vladimir Vernadsky, after whom the station is named, formed the basis of the study of the noosphere

Mid-January 2022 she will sail from Odesa for her first voyage under the Ukrainian flag for the Antarctic.

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