Specifications 22crew 50troops 4030light (tn) 5455full load (tn) 80length (m) 17beam (m) 12max speed (knots) 2Naval Engine diesel Aircraft Typical Max Landing platform only. No hangar Royal Navy Westland Lynx 01 Royal Air Force SNIA SA330 Puma 01 Shipyards Havyard Leirvik - 1 List of Ships Filter: All - .......... 1UK - Her Majesty's Government .......... 1 Hide Transfers Hide derivatives 19951999mv Polar Queen19992019 Her Majesty's Government RRS Ernest Shackleton 1 units Events 1995CommissionedCommissioned mv Polar Queen for Rieber Shipping (Norway) 1999DeploymentDeployment mv Polar Queen short term charter early in 1999 for Australian Antarctic Programme 1999-julDecommissionedDecommissioned mv Polar Queen to UK British Antarctic Survey, on 20 year contract. 1999-augCommissionedCommissioned RRS Ernest Shackleton ex mv Polar Queen, for British Antarctic Survey 2000-may-13 RRS Ernest Shackleton renamed RRS Ernest Shackleton 2019-apr-30Fate: transferedFate: transfered RRS Ernest Shackleton returned to Rieber Shipping (Norway), for Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale.
RRS Ernest Shackleton
Aircraft
Havyard Leirvik - 