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OAS platform Detail for Ernest Shackleton
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platforms_id: 10605
Title: RRS
Name: Ernest Shackleton
ICES Code: 74EE
Callsign: ZDLS1
Countries: UNITED KINGDOM
Comments: Updated information from ICES for the vessel ERNEST SHACKLETON from FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS). Please note flag correction from the UK to the Falkland Islands.

Name : ERNEST SHACKLETON
Flag : FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS) - FK (ISO Country Code)
Call Sign : ZDLS1
Title : RRS
Platform Class : Research vessel
IMO : 9114256
Commissioned Date : 1999-08
Current Length : 80
Built : 1995
Notes : Built in Norway. BAS base supply vessel from 1999
Notes: Previous Name : POLAR QUEEN
Information Source : http://www.marine.gov.uk/ernest%20shackleton.htm (URL)

General Comments:
More info: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/living_and_working/research_ships/rrs_ernest_shackleton/index.php

Built in Norway as the MV Polar Queen for a Norwegian shipping company in 1995. British Antarctic Survey acquired the ship in August 1999 and it was renamed RRS Ernest Shackleton and re-registered in the Falkland Islands.

ICES added 2006-10-25
Deprecated: false
Metadata version: 4
Keydate: 2005-04-20 17:33:27.180088+00
Editdate: 2022-07-05 02:19:38+00