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RRS James Cook - Wikipedia

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History
RRS James Cook in dock at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
United Kingdom
Name	RRS James Cook
Namesake	James Cook
Owner	NERC Research Ship Unit
Builder	Flekkefjord Slipp & Maskinfabrikk AS, Norway. Hull built in Gdansk, Poland
Cost	£36 million
Laid down	22 March 2005
Launched	4 November 2005
Christened	February 2007 by Princess Royal
Maiden voyage	5 March 2007
Identification	IMO number: 9338242 MMSI number: 235010700 Callsign: MLRM6
Status	in service
Notes	^[1]^[2]^[3]
General characteristics
Type	Lloyds +100A1, Ice 1C, FS, +LMC, UMS DP(AM) research vessel
Tonnage	5,401 GT
Length	89.5 m (293 ft 8 in)
Beam	18.6 m (61 ft 0 in)
Draught	5.5–5.7 m (18 ft 1 in – 18 ft 8 in)
Installed power	Wärtsilä 9L20 – 4 × 1,770 kW (2,370 hp) Teco Westinghouse 2 × 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)
Endurance	50 days
Crew	9 officers; 13 crew; 32 scientists & technicians
Notes	^[4]

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 Anne, Princess Royal.^[5]

On her maiden scientific voyage, on 5 March 2007, the James Cook set off to study the Fifteen-Twenty fracture zone.^[6]^[7]

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.^[8]

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.^[9]

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.^[10]