Bransfield RRS
Posted: 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
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