Earth:RRS James Cook
 RRS James Cook at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton in May 2025 | |
| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | RRS James Cook |
| Namesake | James Cook |
| Owner | Natural Environment Research Council Research Ship Unit |
| Builder | Flekkefjord Slipp & Maskinfabrikk, Norway, Hull built in Gdansk, Poland |
| Cost | £36 million |
| Laid down | 22 March 2005 |
| Launched | 4 November 2005 |
| Christened | February 2007 |
| Maiden voyage | 5 March 2007 |
| Identification |
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| Status | in service |
| Notes | [1][2][3] |
| __1B0X_5H1P__ | career |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Lloyds +100A1, Ice 1C, FS, +LMC, UMS DP(AM) research vessel |
| Tonnage | 5,401 GT |
| Length | 89.5 m (293 ft 8 in) |
| Beam | 18.6 m (61 ft 0 in) |
| Draught | 5.5–5.7 m (18 ft 1 in–18 ft 8 in) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Endurance | 50 days |
| Crew | 9 officers; 13 crew; 32 scientists & technicians |
| Notes | [4] |
| __1B0X_5H1P__ | characteristics |
RRS James Cook is a British Royal Research Ship operated by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). She was built in 2006 to replace the ageing RRS Charles Darwin with funds from Britain's NERC and the Department of Trade & Industry's Large Scientific Facilities Fund. She was named after James Cook at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton by Anne, Princess Royal.[5][6]
On her maiden scientific voyage, on 5 March 2007, the James Cook set off to study the Fifteen-Twenty fracture zone.[7][8] James Cook was involved in the discovery of what is believed to be the world's deepest undersea volcanic vents, while in the Caribbean in 2010.[9]
In September 2015, while on a cruise studying the seabed and marine life of the Whittard Canyon on the northern margin of the Bay of Biscay, oceanographers pictured what they believe was the first blue whale in English waters since the mammals were almost hunted to extinction in the north-east Atlantic.[10]
In January 2020 she left Fort Lauderdale to take part in the Go-Ship programme of scientific expeditions, studying the changes in the physical and chemical make-up of the North Atlantic as a result of anthropogenic warming. The voyage ended at Tenerife in early March.[11]
See also
- RV Neil Armstrong – United States equivalent
References
- ↑ "Planet Earth". NERC. Spring 2007. http://www.nerc.ac.uk/publications/planetearth/2007/spring/spr07-news.pdf.
- ↑ "RRS James Cook". NERC. http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/facilities/marine/jamescook.asp.
- ↑ "RRS James Cook". National Oceanography Centre. http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/nmf/sea_sys_index.php?page=jcook.
- ↑ "RRS James Cook Ship Specification". rrsjamescook.com. http://www.rrsjamescook.com/RRS%20James%20Cook%20-%20General%20Information.asp?Back=index.asp.
- ↑ "RRS James Cook named by HRH The Princess Royal". Natural Environment Research Council. http://www.nerc.ac.uk/press/briefings/2007/03-jamescook.asp.
- ↑ Small Ships of 2006. Royal Institution of Naval Architects. 2007. p. 38. ISBN 1 905040 31 8.
- ↑ "RRS James Cook, Research Vessel – Ship Technology" (in en-GB). https://www.ship-technology.com/projects/rrsjamescook/.
- ↑ "Cruise inventory – RRS James Cook JC007 – cruise summary report". British Oceanographic Data Centre. https://www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/inventories/cruise_inventory/report/7947/.
- ↑ "British scientific expedition discovers world's deepest known undersea volcanic vents". physorg.com. http://www.physorg.com/news190208909.html.
- ↑ Morris, Steven. "Blue whale caught on camera in English waters 'for the first time'". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/02/blue-whale-caught-on-camera-english-waters-first-time.
- ↑ "NOC RESEARCH EXPEDITION TO ASSESS CONTINUED ABILITY OF NORTH ATLANTIC TO MITIGATE GLOBAL HEATING". https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/specialised-fields/marine-research-and-training/noc-research-expedition-to-assess-continued-ability-of-north-atlantic-to-mitigate-global-heating/.
External links
- Skipsteknisk AS Design ST-345
- National Oceanography Centre – Sea Systems – RRS James Cook, Southampton
- Movie of the hull launch of the RRS James Cook in Gdansk, Poland
- "On the bridge of the RRS James Cook". National Oceanography Centre. June 3, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WzuoElQ_pU.
- "Take A Look Round The RSS James Cook with the Ship's Captain". That's TV Solent. February 6, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GSEJU9bX2E.
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