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Boaty McBoatface Launch Saturday
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12th Jul 2018 9:08am
12th Jul 2018 9:08am
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![[Linked Image]](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/FF42/production/_102464356_d2848af2-5420-4169-8a7d-ae07b24c4278.jpg) The newly assembled hull of the RRS Sir David Attenborough is now standing on the slipway of the Cammell Laird yard in Birkenhead, awaiting launch day. Weather and tide permitting, she should slide into the River Mersey on Saturday. The £200m vessel will replace the James Clark Ross and the Shackleton, which between them have almost 50 years' service in support of UK polar science. The Attenborough is the ship the public had wanted to call "Boaty McBoatface" in an online poll, before ministers stepped in to choose a more appropriate name. She represents the largest commercial ship built in Britain in three decades. The hull should make for quite a sight as her steelwork floats out into Liverpool's famous waters. Planned for around lunchtime Saturday. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44780708
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Re: Boaty McBoatface Launch Saturday
[Re: Gibbo]
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12th Jul 2018 12:54pm
12th Jul 2018 12:54pm
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granny
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I could never understand why the person who came up with the ridiculous name did just that ,or how it connects in any way . It sounds like something out of kids comic.
Anyway, it will be something very special . Thanks Gibbo
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
~Chief Seattle
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Re: Boaty McBoatface Launch Saturday
[Re: Gibbo]
#1056811
12th Jul 2018 3:33pm
12th Jul 2018 3:33pm
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The BBC report quoted here has got Cammell Laird in Birkenhead, but I bet on Saturday some media outlets will be saying the ship was built in Liverpool. Earlier this year, the Natural Environment Research Council, which commissioned the vessel, said on its website that it was being built in Liverpool. I contacted them and they finally made a correction after a couple of months. But on their website right now, there’s no mention of Birkenhead – it just says the ship will be launched into the Mersey.
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