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 HRH The Princess Royal.
On her maiden scientific voyage, on 5 March 2007, 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 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 believe they pictured the first blue whale in English waters since the mammals were almost hunted to extinction in the north-east Atlantic.
Video RRS James Cook
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Maps RRS James Cook
External links
- National Oceanography Centre - Sea Systems - RRS James Cook, Southampton
- Movie of the hull launch of the RRS James Cook in Gdansk, Poland
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