All information below adopted from BAS website: (for my personal interest)
General
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- Port of Registry:
- Call Sign:
- INMARSAT-B:
- MMSI No:
- Class:
- Length overall:
- Breadth:
- Full load draft:
- Freeboard:
- Endurance:
- Propulsion:
- Bow thruster:
- Stern thruster:
- Stabilisation:
Manning:
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- Stanley, Falkland Islands
- ZDLP
- 374033924 (Fax)
- 740339000
- Lloyds +100A1 Ice Class IAS +LMS UMS (DP-AM pending)
- 99.04 m
- 18.85 m
- 6.40 m
- 3.308 m
- 12 knots cruising speed: 57 days
- Diesel Electric, single fixed propeller, 8500 SHP
- White Gill 360° Controllable, 10 tonnes thrust
- White Gill 360° Controllable, 4 tonnes thrust
- Intering Active/Passive, incorporating ice heeling and overside load compensation
- Officers 12 (+1 on science cruises)
Ratings 15 Doctor 1
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Scientific/Expedition Accommodation
- 15 single berth (with Pullman berth) (14 available on science cruises)
- 4 x 4-berth
- Chief Scientist's Suite (2 single berths available)
- Maximum science complement: 31 berths
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Ship's Navigation Outfit
- Sperry Marine Integrated Bridge System, incorporating:
- Sperry Mk37 Mod E Dual Gyro Compasses
- Sperry Autopilot Model ADG
- Sperry Nav System incorporating Decca Navigator
- LORAN 'C'
Electronic Positioning:
- Leica MX 400 DGPS
- Ashtech G12 DGPS
- Furuno Loran C (Note: differential correction data via Racal Skyfix
Compasses:
- Standard magnetic Cook NSK1977 electric repeater
Electronic Charting and Plotting:
- Sea Information System Microplot 6 Version Survey MR
- ARCS chart display
- World grid (Fleming Sinusoidal
- UTM projections
- Myriad
- Sperry Chart Digitiser 'E' size, interfaced with navigation system
Radars:
- GMDSS-SAIT
Echo sounders:
- Marconi Marine Seachart 3 Navigational Souner
- Marconi Marine Seachart 3 Manoeuvering Sounder (Stern Transducer)
- Simrad EA500 Hydrographic Sounder
- Furuno CSH50 Directional Sounder
- Simrad EK500 200 Hz Transducer
Logs:
- Sperry SRD 421S Dual Axis Doppler Log
- Chernikeef Aquaprobe Mk 5 EM Log
Other:
- Space Technology MSGS-30 Satellite Picture Receiver, with printer
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Working Deck Areas
- After Deck 20 m long, full deck width (370 m²)
- Starboard: 5 m wide to midship (150 m²)
- Forward: Starboard side main deck (130 m&'178;)
- All working deck areas covered by matrix of 1-tonne capacity bolt-down points at 1 m centres (0.5 m in some areas)
- Facilities for 5 laboratory containers (ISO 20 ft, 4 aft, 1 fwd)
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Cranage
Forward:
- Main Cargo Crane 20 tonne x 20 m
- Stores Crane 2.5 tonne x 10 m
- Science Crane 2 tonne x 4 m, fitted winch and slip rings
Aft:
- 10 tonne x 17 m, 3 tonne x 22 m
- 2 x 2.5 tonne capacity science cranes (with winches), pt 13 m, stb 10 m
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Gantries
Aft:
- Articulated 'A' frame SWL 20 T (static) (7.5 T SWL ArtArm.)
- 2x2 tonne handling winches on gantry frame
Midships:
- Articulated 'A' frame SWL 30 T (static)
- 2x2 tonne handling winches adjacent
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Winch Systems
Main Traction Winch 30 T SWL (serving aft and midship gantries):
- Storage Drums - Superaramid Deep Coring Warp - 8000 m
Standard Coring Warp - 8000 m Tapered Trawl Warp - 15000 m Conducting Cable - 10000 m
CTD/Hydrographic Traction Winch 10 T SWL:
- Storage Drums - Hydrographic Wire - 9000 m
Conducting Cable - 8000 m Spare Drum - (Inboard and outboard motion compensator systems are fitted to both winches)
- Biological Drum Winch: 3000 m 5 T SWL
Twin Warp Trawling System:
- 3000 m x 2 x 35.8 T
(A net drum winch is available for mounting on the main deck) - Gilson Winches: 2 x 5 T
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Laboratories
- Wet Laboratory (23.5 m²)
- Main Laboratory (44.2 m²)
- Rough Workshop (25.9 m²)
- Scientific Workshop (19.6 m²)
- Waterbottle Annex (18.1 m²
- Chemistry Laboratory (18.1 m²)
- Preparation Laboratory: (16.3 m²)
- Biochemistry Laboratory (10.6 m²)
- Microbiology/Radioactive Laboratory (10.7 m²)
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Computer/Electronic/Control Spaces
- Underway Instrumentation and Control Room (66.8 m²)
(incorporating Winch Control Room) - Electronics Workshop (7.2 m²)
- Data Preparation Room (16.5 m²)
- Computer Room (19.2 m²)
- Paper and Magnetic Tape Ready-use Store (4.6 m²)
- Darkroom (7.4 m²)
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Other Scientific Spaces
- Gravity Meter Room (5.2 m²)
- Cool Specimen Room (13 m²)
- Scientific Freezer (12.4 m²)
- -80°C Scientific Chest Freezers x2
- Scientific Hold (118 m²)
- Explosives Magazine (15 T)
- Hazardous Chemicals Lockers (Main Deck)
- Storm Clothing Annex
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Scientific Data Acquisition
- Local Area Network system with back-up is installed for cruise instrumentation and equipment. Instrumentation continuously logged on the central computing systems. Facilities are available for data transmission via satellite to and from the ship.
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Scientific Instrumentation
Echo Sounders and Logs
- Simrad EA 500 navigational sounders
- Simrad EK 500, 38 kHz, 200 kHz and 120 kHz transducers
- Sub-bottom Profiler, 3.5 kHz
- Precision Echo Sounder, 10 kHz
- Furuno CSH50 directional sounder
- Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (RDI type RD-VDM150)
- Pitch, Roll, Heave monitor/compensator
- Dual Axis Doppler Log (Sperry SRD 421 S)
- Electro-Mechanical Log (Chernikeef Aquaprobe Mk5)
Further information regarding these systems is on the Antarctic & Marine Engineering (AME) pages.
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Navigation and Oceanography
- Ship's navigation system repeated in UIC Room
- Trimble 4000 Surveyor DGPS (Racal Skyfix)
- PC based Oceanlogger
- Ashtec GPS3DF - linked to ADCP
- Dynamic Positioning System: Simrad Kongsberg SDPI 1
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Scientific Services
Seismic Air Compressors
- Hamworthy 4TH565W100 x 4 - capacity 555m³/hr at 136 bar
Non-contaminated Sea Water System
- Retractable sampling probe 7.2/14 m³/hr
Distilled/UHP Water System
- Elgastat polishing unit (ultra high purity) in chemistry laboratory
Hydraulic Power Supplies
- Three pump system providing flow rates of 26, 52 and 78 ltrs/min at 200 bar to three deck manifolds (port/stb aft and midships)
- Fwd deck manifold 50 ltrs at 200 bar
- Hansen (female required) connections 1.25/1" BSP
- Separate supplies for 'Gloria, MCS and Net Drum Winch'
Electrical Power Supplies
- There are two standards of supply - general purpose which may at times have high harmonic content due to the thyristor-controlled propulsion system and clean which is provided by dedicated generators and is suitable for sensitive electronic equipment
- 415 v AC x 500 amo (scientific rough workshop) serving aft deck
- 415 v 50 Hz 3 Ph general purpose supply with 8 outlets (main deck)
- 240 v 50 Hz 3 Ph general purpose supply (PES pt and stb)
- 240 v 50 Hz 1 Ph general purpose supply with 5 outlets (various)
- 110 v 50 Hz 1 Ph general purpose supply to all working areas
- 240 v 50 Hz 1 Ph clean supply to most areas - i.e. labs, cabins, workshops etc.
- 110 v 60 Hz 1 Ph clean supply to limited areas - 10 outlets
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Container Laboratories
- Facilities and services for four containers on aft deck and one container on the fwd deck
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