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John Biscoe ll

Post by shipstamps » Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:42 am

The John Biscoe is the second vessel to bear the name. Two honours were conferred by the Queen on the earlier John Biscoe when that ship returned to the United Kingdom from her 1952-53 Antarctic relief voyage—she was designated a Royal Research Ship and she took part in the Coronation Review at Spithead. At the launching on June 11, 1956 of the present John Biscoe, Lady Lennox-Boyd, after the naming ceremony, stated that the Queen had granted permission for the new vessel also to be designated a Royal Research Ship. The vessel was designed by the Liverpool firm of Graham and Woolnough and is strengthened for navigation in ice, and has an ice-breaker bow with heavy fins and an ice-knife as part of the hull to give protection to the propeller and rudder.
Dimensions of the John Biscoe are: length (o.a.), 220 ft. and beam 40 ft. with a draft of 20 ft. Her gross tonnage is 1,584. Two 10-ton derricks are fitted to the foremast to serve the forward cargo hold and to handle the large scow and motor boat, chocked up on the upper deck, which are used for transporting the stores to the bases when the ship is anchored off-shore. Mooring equipment consists of a stream anchor weighing 31/4 cwt., three stockless bower anchors each weighing 263/4 cwt. and 300 fathoms of 11/2 in. high-tensile steel cable. The ship was built by Fleming and Ferguson, Ltd. at Paisley and is designed for a service speed of 12 knots. During her trials on the Clyde in November 1956 the ship attained more than 13 knots on the measured mile. She was built for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey at a price of more than £500,000, the builders guaranteeing delivery in 18 months. Delivery tools place two days before the expiration of the contract date, the vessel being handed over at Glasgow.
Leaving Southampton on her maiden voyage on November26, 1956, the John Biscoe carried 19 young men, only one of whom was married. Among them were glaciologists, surveyors and weather observers, going out for a period of approximately 15 months in the Antarctic bases. On New Year's Day, 1957, the vessel made a rendezvous with the Royal Yacht Britannia, with the Duke of Edinburgh on board. The Duke transferred to the John Biscoe and remained in her for about four or five days while various bases were visited—certainly the first member of the Royal family to have been so far south.
Like every other Antarctic ship, the John Biscoe has been trapped by ice floes. On June 5, 1958 she arrived back at Southampton after experiencing the worst ice conditions in the Antarctic for several years. Huge pieces of pack ice weighing hundreds of tons buckled forward hull plates and framing. A leak developed and water was cleared by pumps on the way home.
In February 1959, R.R.S. John Biscoe was again trapped by pack ice at the entrance to the channel leading to the four British bases in Graham Land, where she remained for six weeks. On the following May 13 she again reported that she was caught in the ice near the Biscoe Islands, Graham Land, and a helicopter from H.M.S. Protector the Royal Navy's ice patrol ship in British Antarctica, was sent to locate the research ship. The Protector was then in her fourth commission in Antarctic waters and she reported that for the first time she had been unable to cross the Antarctic Circle due to the abnormal conditions. Brit Ant SG6 29 226 Falk Is Dep SG86A Hong Kong SG?
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Re: John Biscoe ll

Post by D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen » Thu Apr 24, 2014 7:11 pm

Gt:1245/1554, Nt:238/359, Length oa:67,06m. Beam:12,27m. Depth:6,10m. Draft:5m. 2-8 cyl. Blackstone engines:1900 hp. (1346 kW>) 12 kn. IMO.5173321.
In 1992 sold to Fayza Shipping, Limassol, renamed in FAYZA EXPRESS, 2004 scrapped by Sok Gemi Sokum, Alliaga, Turkey.
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Re: John Biscoe ll

Post by D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen » Thu May 19, 2016 7:52 pm

Falkland Islands Dependencies 1980, 50 p. StG.86A
British Antarctic Territory 2013, 40 p. StG.?
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Re: John Biscoe ll

Post by D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen » Tue Jan 09, 2018 3:22 pm

B.A.T. 2017, 76 p. StG.?
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Re: John Biscoe ll

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Oct 26, 2020 3:06 am

The wrong vessel is on the stamp, the depicted vessel is the JOHN BISCOE (1)

Tristan da Cunha 2020 1p sg?, scott?
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Re: John Biscoe ll

Post by D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen » Sat Nov 28, 2020 3:49 pm

Tristan da Cunha 2020, 1 p. StG.?
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