Polar Enquiry Vessel Rrs Sir David Attenborough (Aka ‘Boaty’) Launched Inwards The Uk

From gCaptain:

The 10,000-tonne hull of the RRS Sir David Attenborough was launched into the River Mersey on Saturday, mark a major milestone inwards the build of the UK’s novel state-of-the-art polar query ship.
The ship, which is nether structure at the Cammel Laird shipyard inwards Liverpool, is the largest civilian send to live on built inwards the UK inwards the final thirty years.

The £200 meg polar query send was commissioned past times the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council in addition to volition live on operated past times the British Antarctic Survey upon its delivery inwards 2019

The send became an meshing meme inwards 2016 later on NERC hosted an online naming challenger for the vessel inwards which the cite ‘Boaty McBoatface‘ was over overwhelmingly selected equally the winner.
Participating inwards Saturday’s launch was Sir David Attenborough himself, the well-known English linguistic communication broadcaster, naturalist in addition to actual person.

Once inwards the river, tugs towed the hull to Cammell Laird’s moisture basin for the side past times side stages of construction....MUCH MORE