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RRS ''Shackleton'' was a Royal Research Ship operating in the Antarctic from 1955 to 1992. She was then in service as a seismic survey vessel, ''Sea Profiler'', until being scrapped in 2011. ==History== Built in 1954 by Solvesborgs Varv A/B at Sölvesborg, Sweden, she was launched as MV ''Arendal'' (III)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Fleet over the years )〕 for work in the Baltic. She was purchased in 1955 by the Falkland Islands Dependency Survey (British Antarctic Survey from 1962). After conversion to carry more passengers, she was renamed ''Shackleton'' and sailed to the Antarctic for the 1955/56 season.〔Fuchs (1982) page 142〕 In 1957, ''Shackleton'' struck an iceberg off the South Orkney Islands and was nearly lost.〔Fuchs (1982) pages 188-90〕 Temporary repairs allowed the Shackleton to reach South Georgia, more than 600 miles from the accident, while all unnecessary passengers and crew were rescued by the HMS Protector.〔("Antarctic Ship Aided; Scientists Taken Off British Vessel Damaged by Floe " ), ''The New York Times''. December 2, 1957. Page 6. Retrieved March 15, 2011.〕 At Deception Island in 1966 the ''Shackleton'' met and provisioned Bill Tilman's SV ''Mischief'', the first private expedition to visit a British Antarctic base.〔Fuchs (1982) page 287〕 ''Shackleton'' joined the rescue of Deception Island base members when the volcano erupted in December 1967 and again in February 1969.〔Fuchs (1982) pages 291-92〕 In 1968 ''Shackleton'' became RRS ''Shackleton'' and was rebuilt in 1971. On 4 February 1976, while taking part of a British economic survey of the Falkland Islands led by Lord Shackleton (son of the Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton), RRS ''Shackleton'' was fired on by the Argentine destroyer ARA ''Almirante Storni'' in a precursor to the Falklands Conflict. After the British Antarctic Survey, she served the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) as an oceanographic research ship and visited Antarctica on five further occasions, before being withdrawn from NERC service in 1983.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=50 years of ships in British Antarctic research ) 〕 ''Shackleton'' was renamed ''Geotek Beta'' in 1983, and ''Profiler'' in 1984. She was ‘retired’ from the South Atlantic in 1992 and reconfigured as a soils and high resolution seismic survey vessel, operated by Gardline Shipping Limited. They renamed her ''Sea Profiler'' in 1992.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=28 Aug - One of those weeks... )〕 She was scrapped in New Holland on the Humber estuary in 2011.〔 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 Shackleton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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