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Sea Profiler

Photo 1

Author: Ship Hunters collection
Location: Montrose (UK)
Date: 20/10/2009

Administrative data

Technical data

name:	Sea Profiler
built:	1955
call sign:	HP6791
IMO:	5321576
flag:	Panama

dimensions:	65.78 x 11.08 x 4.66 m
type:	survey vessel
capacity:	N/A
speed:	10.50 kn

former name(s):	new name(s):
Arendal ('55-'56) Shackleton ('56-'68) RSS Shackleton ('68-'83) Geotek Beta ('83-'84) Profiler ('84-'92)	No known new names

We also have pictures of this vessel under the folowing name(s).

Extra info:

built in 1954, she was originally launched as Arendal for work in the Baltic.
She was purchased in 1955 by the Falkland Islands Dependency Survey (British Antarctic Survey from 1962).

After conversion to carry more passengers, she was renamed Shackleton and sailed to the Antarctic.
As RRS Shackleton, she was a Royal Research Ship operating in the Antarctic, she was then in service as a seismic survey vessel

Converted?	This vessel was converted from seismic survey vessel to survey vessel in the year 1989.
Museum?	No
Scrapping?	This vessel was sold to United Kingdom in the year 2011 for scrapping.
Casualty?	No