Research vessel

Research vessels take on a variety of research topics on the seas. Make scientific laboratories is on the sea and take on tasks in the various disciplines: Arctic, Antarctic, ice and polar research, geology, meteorology, oceanography, marine engineering, fisheries science, marine biology and underwater archeology.

It has enforced a classification according to the ride areas international:

  • Global: ships that can be used on all oceans. Minimum requirements: sufficient radius of action, life 40 days, appropriate communication equipment, length 65 meters, wind capacity 6000 meter, deep- Lotausrüstung, loading capacity for scientific equipment 100 tons, 25 scientists Places
  • Oceanic: ships only sail an ocean, from a European perspective, the North Atlantic marginal seas. Requirements: Length min. 55 meters, deep sea suitable winch and Lotausrüstung
  • Regional: from German perspective vessels for operation in the North Sea and the Baltic, operating depth of up to 1000 meters
  • Locally: Ships for coastal research, case depth up to max. 500 meters

Historic Ships

Past and past usage of ships include:

  • The HMS Beagle, the ship of Charles Darwin
  • Vega, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld succeeded with the first-time biking the Northeast Passage
  • The HMS Challenger, the ship of the British Challenger Expedition 1872-1876
  • The Fram, a house built according to the ideas of Fridtjof Nansen designed for use in polar regions research vessel
  • The Valdivia of the first German deep-sea expedition (see Valdivia expedition ) and Valdivia, University of Hamburg
  • Atlantis, Ketch, built in 1931 WHOI
  • Calypso of Jacques -Yves Cousteau
  • Otto Hahn as a civilian German nuclear-powered ship
  • The A. v. Humboldt of the Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (already provided by the GDR in service, . different from the sailing ship named Alexander von Humboldt On 6 September 2004, the ship was decommissioned This was part of the Leibniz Institute. for Baltic Sea research Warnemünde: " however, their last major research trip went again into the South Atlantic: from 5 December 2003 to 2 July 2004, Humboldt was in the waters off Angola, Namibia and South Africa go The. " A. v. Humboldt " after the decommissioning are sold and drive name with its new owners, among others. ) "
  • The Gauss from the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency ( BSH)
  • Greenland, which was used by Captain Carl Koldewey to the first German expedition to the Arctic in 1868 and who still goes to sea
  • Glomar Challenger
  • JOIDES Resolution

Active German ships

Active service located in German ships (with operators) are the beginning of 2011:

  • Polarstern, Alfred Wegener Institute
  • Meteor, German Research Foundation
  • Sun, Project Management Jülich, completed in 2015 in succession to
  • Planet, Bundeswehr Technical Center for Ships and Naval Weapons of the Armed Forces, Maritime Technology and Research
  • Maria S. Merian, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde
  • Walther Herwig III, Johann Heinrich von Thünen -Institut
  • Comet, Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency
  • Poseidon, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
  • Alcor, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
  • Station Helgoland, Alfred Wegener Institute
  • Atair, Deneb and Vega, surveying, wreck search and research vessels, Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency
  • Sound, Project Management Jülich
  • Solea, Johann Heinrich von Thünen -Institut
  • Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
  • Ludwig Prandtl, Helmholtz -Zentrum Geesthacht
  • Uthörn, Alfred Wegener Institute
  • Littorina, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
  • Senckenberg, Senckenberg Nature Research Society
  • Hedeby, State Agency for Nature and Environment of the Land Schleswig -Holstein

The planned under German auspices European polareisbrechende research and Tiefseebohrschiff Aurora Borealis should be completed in 2016, the realization of the project is questionable due to lack of funding and a recent negative opinion of the Science Council in November 2010.

Research ships of other nations

Other ships present in service are not limited to:

USA

  • Alvin submarine, built in 1964

Belgium

France

  • Marion Dufresne II
  • Pourquoi Pas?
  • Thalassa

Russia

  • Akademik Fyodorov
  • Akademik Ioffe
  • Akademik Alexander Karpinski
  • Akademik Mstislav Keldysh
  • Akademik Shokalskiy
  • Professor Molchanov

No longer active ships

  • Mikhail Sholokhov, built at the Neptun Shipyard in the GDR
  • Sergei Vavilov
  • Akademik Vernadsky
Laboratory HMS Challenger (1858) Challenger-Expedition Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution RV Calypso Alexander von Humboldt (ship) Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research RV Meteor (1986) Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft RV Sonne Aurora Borealis (icebreaker) German Council of Science and Humanities RV FLIP RV Belgica (1884) French ship Thalassa (1996) Integrated Authority File
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