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Today the latest Royal Research ships of the Natural Environment Research Council and British Antarctic Survey continue in the forefront of oceanographic research around the globe, which is of critical importance in understanding how Planet Earth functions. The authors of this book relate their recollections of the Royal Research Ships in the period from the 1960s to the 1990s. Featuring more than 230 illustrations, compiled and edited by Trevor Boult with contributions from Dr. John Gould, Andrew Louch, Jon Seymour, Captain Philip Warne, Nigel Jonas, Barry Smith and Karen Boult Contents: Dedication / Quote; Acknowledgements Foreword by HRH The Princess Royal Prologue by James Lovelock Introduction; What's in a Name?: Shackleton, John Murray, Challenger, Discovery, Charles Darwin, Frederick Russell, Edward Forbes, Bransfield, John Biscoe and James Clark Ross RRS Shackleton by Captain P. H. Warne, and by Trevor Boult Discovery after Discovery - a Scientist's Seagoing Life by Dr. John Gould RRS John Murray by Trevor Boult At Sea with NERC by J. K. Seymour RRS Challenger by Trevor Boult, Verse: The Gulls Wake Early, and Verse: Special Delivery The Watch Ashore by Karen Boult All At Sea with NERC by Andrew Louch RRS Frederick Russell by Nigel Jonas RRS Discovery (1) by Andrew Louch RRS Discovery (2) by Trevor Boult From Ship to Shore by Andrew Louch Anecdote of an Electrical Officer by Barry Smith RRS Discovery: Voyage 200 by Trevor Boult The Donkeyman Walks by Barry Smith The Burial of Polly by Barry Smith RRS Charles Darwin by Trevor Boult RRS Bransfield by Trevor Boult RRS John Biscoe by Trevor Boult RRS James Clark Ross by Trevor Boult Return to Challenger: Impressions of a Returning Officer by Trevor Boult
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