Tag: RRS Discovery

• Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 08:09 UTC

  Eastern Falkland Plateau to be surveyed by state of the art scientific research vessel

  

  The RRS Discovery arrived on Tuesday in Chile's extreme south port of Punta Arenas in advance of her next research expedition, to undertake seismic survey and piston coring operations in the eastern Falkland Plateau region of the Sub-Antarctic Southwest Atlantic Ocean.

• Wednesday, October 14th 2015 - 05:57 UTC

  UK's new polar ship to be built in Britain; delivery scheduled for 2019

  

  The U.K. Government announced on Monday that Cammell Laird in Birkenhead has been selected as the preferred bidder to build the nation’s new £200 million polar research ship. The decision follows a 12-month competitive tender process that involved bids from companies in the U.K., Spain, Norway, Singapore and South Korea.