New UK vessel to raise benchmark in oceanographic research

NERC's newbuild ‘RRS Discovery’ is based on a Skipsteknisk design, the ST-344

David Tinsley describes a new scientific ship being built in Spain for a UK research organisation, to a Norwegian basic design and with Finnish propulsion.

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