To World's End - Royal Navy completes historic patrol MOD 45159749
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L(Phot) Nicky Wilson
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Pictured is HMS Protector viewed from her Survey Motor Boat.
HMS Protector is the Royal Navy’s Ice patrol Ship and is deployed on operations for 330 days a year.
The ship is capable of positioning to pinpoint accuracy in winds of up to 80 knots and is fitted with an impressive array of specialist equipment.
This includes a hull mounted multi-beam echo sounder; a state-of-the-art survey motor boat (SMB), ‘James Caird IV’; an 8.5m ramped Work Boat, ‘Terra Nova’; seven high-speed rigid inflatable and inflatable boats; three quad bikes and trailers and a Land Rover and two trailers.
- Organization: Royal Navy
- Object Name: MA160010124
- Category: MOD
- Supplemental Categories: Equipment, Ships, Survey Vessels
- Keywords: Royal Navy, Equipment, Ship, Ice Patrol and Survey Vessel, Antarctic Patrol Ship, HMS Protector, A173, Weather, Climate, Cold, Freezing, Ice, Icy, Terrain, Landscape, Water, Ocean
- Country: Antarctica
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Images are downloadable at high resolution, made available at http://www.defenceimagery.mod.uk for reuse under the OGL (Open Government License).
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