UK orders new scientific research ship

Artist’s impression of NERC’s new research vessel (Courtesy: Skipsteknisk AS)

The UK’s leading environmental research organisation has commissioned a 6,300 tonne displacement scientific research ship to replace the RRS Discovery which was built in 1962 and is coming to the end of its useful scientific working life.

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