The new ice breaking research ship for British Antarctic Survey Sir David Attenborough has finally been named in a ceremony at the building yard Cammell Laird in Liverpool:
See the similarity with the Kronprins Haakon?
Maybe not so surprising since both were designed by what was Rolls Royce’s design office (NVC) in Aalesund, Norway (Now Kongsberg Marine)
The two vessels which she will replace RRS “James Clark Ross” and RRS "Ernest Shackleton, was returned to owner GC Rieber in late April this year, after 30 years of polar service for the British Antarctic Survey.