RRS James Cook

Short description: Royal Research Ship operated by the Natural Environment Research Council

RRS James Cook in dock at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton

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General characteristics
Class and type:|

Lloyds +100A1, Ice 1C, FS, +LMC, UMS

DP(AM) Research Vessel
Length:|  89.5 m (294 ft)
Beam:|  18.6 m (61 ft)
Draught:|  5.5 m (18 ft) - 5.7 m (19 ft)
Installed power:|

* Wärtsilä 9L20 - 4x 1,770 kW (2,370 hp)
* Teco Westinghouse 2x 2,500 kW (3,400 hp)

Propulsion:|

* Bow Thruster: 1,200 kW (1,600 hp) Super Silent
* Azimuth Thruster: 1,350 kW (1,810 hp)
* Stern Thruster 1: 600 kW (800 hp) Standard
* Stern Thruster 2: 800 kW (1,100 hp) Super Silent

Speed:|  16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Crew:|  9 Officers; 13 Crew; 32 Scientists & Technicians
Notes:|

* Endurance 50 days
* [1]

The RRS James Cook is a British Royal Research Ship operated by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). She was built in 2006 to replace the ageing RRS Charles Darwin with funds from Britain's NERC and the DTI's Large Scientific Facilities Fund. She was named after Captain James Cook, the British explorer, navigator and cartographer at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton by The Princess Royal.[2]

On her maiden scientific voyage, on 5 March 2007, the James Cook set off to study the Fifteen-Twenty Fracture Zone.[3][4]

James Cook was involved in the discovery of what is believed to be the world's deepest undersea volcanic vents, while in the Caribbean in 2010.[5]

In September 2015, while on a cruise studying the seabed and marine life of the Whittard Canyon on the northern margin of the Bay of Biscay, oceanographers pictured what they believe was the first blue whale in English waters since the mammals were almost hunted to extinction in the north-east Atlantic.[6]

In January 2020 she left Fort Lauderdale to take part in the Go-Ship programme of scientific expeditions, studying the changes in the physical and chemical make-up of the North Atlantic as a result of anthropogenic warming. The voyage ended at Tenerife in early March.[7]

James Cook returns to Southampton following a two-week cruise testing new ROVs

## See also

* RV Neil Armstrong \- United States equivalent

## References

1. ↑ "RRS James Cook Ship Specification". rrsjamescook.com. http://www.rrsjamescook.com/RRS James Cook - General Information.asp?Back=index.asp. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
2. ↑ "RRS James Cook named by HRH The Princess Royal". Natural Environment Research Council. http://www.nerc.ac.uk/press/briefings/2007/03-jamescook.asp. Retrieved 2010-04-12.
3. ↑ "RRS James Cook, Research Vessel - Ship Technology" (in en-GB). https://www.ship-technology.com/projects/rrsjamescook/.
4. ↑ "Cruise inventory - RRS James Cook JC007 - cruise summary report". https://www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/inventories/cruise_inventory/report/7947/.
5. ↑ "British scientific expedition discovers world's deepest known undersea volcanic vents". physorg.com. http://www.physorg.com/news190208909.html. Retrieved 2010-04-12.
6. ↑ Morris, Steven. "Blue whale caught on camera in English waters 'for the first time'". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/02/blue-whale-caught-on-camera-english-waters-first-time. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
7. ↑ "NOC RESEARCH EXPEDITION TO ASSESS CONTINUED ABILITY OF NORTH ATLANTIC TO MITIGATE GLOBAL HEATING". https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/specialised-fields/marine-research-and-training/noc-research-expedition-to-assess-continued-ability-of-north-atlantic-to-mitigate-global-heating/. Retrieved 21 March 2020.

## External links

* Skipsteknisk AS Design ST-345
* National Oceanography Centre - Sea Systems - RRS James Cook, Southampton
* Movie of the hull launch of the RRS James Cook in Gdansk, Poland
* "On the bridge of the RRS James Cook". National Oceanography Centre. June 3, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WzuoElQ_pU.
* "Take A Look Round The RSS James Cook With The Ship's Captain". That's TV Solent. February 6, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GSEJU9bX2E.

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