James Clark Ross Royal Ship - Vintage Photograph

The world's most advanced Survey ship has sailed to remote Scottish loch to take part in hush-hush sea trials. James Clark Ross, a new £35m (35 million pound) vessel, needed the peace and quiet of Loch Goil to simulate the silence of South Atlantic waters in testing its underwater noise reccording equipment. When the two week trials by shipbuilders Swan Hunters are complete the survey ship will be deliver ed to the British Antarctic Survey. The James Clark Ross, launched last Decembber at Swans yard in Wallsernd on the Tyne, has a specially strengthened hull and can sail at two knots through ice almost one metre thick. The ship, with a compliment of up to 77, can operate in temperatures down to -40 degrees C and is capable of rolling from side to side to prevent it from becoming trapped in pack ice. In addition to the research role, James Clark Ross will also take supplies to Britain's five permanent Antarctic stations. Picture by Ian Horrocks, from Bonney, NCLE.

Dimensions: 27.1 x 40.3 cm

IMS SKU: SCAN-IND-03015225

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