Tag: HMS Protector

• Tuesday, February 20th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

  Crossing the Line Certificate for surviving in freezing Antarctic waters when an iceberg capsized

  

  A former sailor who served on board the previous Royal Navy Ice Patrol HMS Protector, who escaped with his life after falling into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, has shared a collection of memorabilia with the crew of the current vessel.

• Thursday, February 8th 2024 - 05:17 UTC

  HMS Protector removes waste from Brabant Island next to Antarctica Peninsula

  

  Royal Navy sailors have helped preserve the natural beauty of Antarctica by removing three tons of waste from an island. Ice patrol HMS Protector returned to Brabant Island – on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula – for the first time since 2017 to continue work to remove abandoned equipment from an expedition in the 1980s.

• Monday, January 29th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

  Ice Patrol HMS Protector is helping to study the impact of tourism on Antarctica

  

  The Royal Navy Ice Patrol HMS Protector took scientists on an Antarctic research cruise to analyze the increasing impact of tourism and climate change on the frozen continent, a challenge which has been underlined by IAATO, the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators. IAATO has pointed out that during the 2022/23 season more than 104,000 visitors traveled to Antarctica.

• Monday, January 8th 2024 - 12:06 UTC

  During January, HMS Protector will help witha a research on increased tourism and pollution

  

  The consequences of increased tourism and pollution in Antarctica, are two of the tasks the Royal Navy Ice Patrol HMS Protector will be checking during this month in the frozen continent. For this purpose it has invited two scientists from the University of Portsmouth, Professor Fay Couceiro and Dr. Clare Boston.

• Tuesday, December 12th 2023 - 10:10 UTC

  Change of skipper for the Royal Navy Ice Patrol

  

  After 20 months and 54,500nm, Captain Maryla Ingham RN has handed over Command of the Ice Patrol HMS Protector to Captain Tom Weaver OBE RN in the Falkland Islands.

• Saturday, August 5th 2023 - 08:07 UTC

  From chef of HMS Protector to cooking at Chequers and 10 Downing Street

  

  From cooking in the presence of penguins to cooking at Chequers, UK's Prime Minister country residence, it has been a varied Royal Navy career for Chef Heidi Sermulins. She has spent the past year working at Chequers, near Aylesbury, a world away from her previous roles as a chef on ice patrol ship HMS Protector and before that, frigate HMS Northumberland.

• Saturday, March 11th 2023 - 08:33 UTC

  HMS Protector says “Farewell, Falklands”

  

  The Royal Navy's only ice patrol HMS Protector has left the Falkland Islands on her way back to Plymouth after four of Antarctic work. It will be a 6,000-mile journey for maintenance and training after completing her season last month safeguarding birdlife and laying the groundwork for further research in the years to come protecting wildlife, safeguarding birdlife, and leaving behind special markers.

• Friday, February 24th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

  HMS Protector calls it a season, heads back north

  

  The Royal Navy's icebreaker HMS Protector has completed her Antarctic scientific mission for the 2023 Antarctic season safeguarding birdlife and laying the groundwork for further research, it was announced.

• Wednesday, February 1st 2023 - 10:10 UTC

  HMS Protector's football fixture included playing in the Antarctic Circle

  

  Sailors from the Royal Navy's Ice Patrol Ship continued their tour of impressive football pitches (starting with Grytviken in South Georgia), when they kicked off inside the Antarctic Circle.

• Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 10:10 UTC

  HMS Protector play football at the most southerly and rugged pitch: South Georgia

  

  Sailors from the Royal Navy went head to head with British Antarctic Survey staff during a game of football on the most southerly – and arguably the worst – pitch in the world. The playing field, at Grytviken, the largest settlement of South Georgia Island, in the South Atlantic, is billed as the most southerly in the world, some 2,476 miles from the South Pole, to be precise.