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    RRS Discovery is a 99.7 meter long research vessel operated by the National Oceanography Centre on behalf of the Natural Environment Research Council. It was designed and built for 21st century oceanography research, allowing it to travel to remote ocean environments and undertake globally important research. Along with RRS James Cook, RRS Discovery is one of two multi-disciplinary research vessels managed by the National Oceanography Centre to conduct oceanography research.

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    RRS Discovery is a 99.7 meter long research vessel operated by the National Oceanography Centre on behalf of the Natural Environment Research Council. It was designed and built for 21st century oceanography research, allowing it to travel to remote ocean environments and undertake globally important research. Along with RRS James Cook, RRS Discovery is one of two multi-disciplinary research vessels managed by the National Oceanography Centre to conduct oceanography research.

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    RRS Discovery: National Oceanography Centre

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    RRS Discovery is a 99.7 meter long research vessel operated by the National Oceanography Centre on behalf of the Natural Environment Research Council. It was designed and built for 21st century oceanography research, allowing it to travel to remote ocean environments and undertake globally important research. Along with RRS James Cook, RRS Discovery is one of two multi-disciplinary research vessels managed by the National Oceanography Centre to conduct oceanography research.

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    National

    Oceanography
    Centre
    RRS Discovery

    Draft 6.5 m
    Length 99.7 m RRS Discovery is specifically designed for the
    challenges of 21st century oceanography and has
    the ability to travel to remote and extreme ocean
    environments to undertake research of national
    and global importance.

    The two global multi-disciplinary research


    vessels; RRS Discovery and RRS James Cook,
    are operated and managed by the National
    Launched 2012 Port Southampton UK Average Operating Speed 11 knots Beam 18.0 m
    Oceanography Centre on behalf of the Natural
    Owner NERC Operator NOC Weight Gross 5952 tonnes Net 1785 tonnes Environment Research Council.

    noc.ac.uk

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