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RRS ''Bransfield'' was an ice-strengthened cargo vessel, purpose-built for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). ==History== RRS ''Bransfield'' was designed by consultants Graham & Woolnaugh of Liverpool for NERC, and built by Robb Caledon Shipbuilders Ltd, Leith. She was named after Edward Bransfield RN (1785-1852), who discovered the north west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, roughly surveyed the South Shetland Islands, claiming King George Island and Clarence Island for Great Britain. Bransfield was the first man to chart part of the Antarctic mainland.〔 This was the second vessel to be named after Bransfield by BAS or its predecessors. The first was HMS ''Bransfield'', the original expedition ship for Operation Tabarin, a secret British expedition to Antarctica during World War Two. It established the first permanent British bases on the Antarctic Peninsula and became the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1945 (renamed BAS in 1962). This vessel was a wooden Norwegian sealer built in 1918 as the Veslekari, and renamed for the expedition.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Norwegian Merchant Fleet 1939-1945 )〕 Her service with Tabarin was inglorious - she proved to be unseaworthy, and had to be replaced before the expedition left English waters in November 1943. In 1993/94, while in the Weddell Sea ''Bransfield'' suffered an engine room fire. In May 1999, she was sold to GC Rieber Shipping as part of the contract for the long-term charter of her replacement, . She was subsequently renamed ''Igenpearl'', and was scrapped in Mumbai in 2000.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RRS Bransfield」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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