RV Franklin
 Franklin underway in 2000
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| History | |
|---|---|
 Australia | |
| Name | Franklin |
| Builder | North Queensland Engineers & Agents Pty. Ltd, Cairns |
| Yard number | 110 |
| Launched | 1985 |
| Completed | March 1985 |
| Identification | |
| Name | Franklin |
| Port of registry |
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| Identification |
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| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 1,178 tons |
| Length | 55.61 m (182 ft 5 in) |
| Beam | 11.99 m (39 ft 4 in) |
| Draught | 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in) |
RV Franklin (subsequently Northern Franklin) is an oceanographic and hydrographic research vessel custom built in Cairns, Australia for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in 1984–5. She was operated by CSIRO as Australia's first Marine National Facility research vessel and undertook 180 voyages in the "blue water" (=offshore) Australian region and in the Southern Ocean between 1985 and 2002.[1] Data about and from these surveys is stored at the CSIRO NCMI (National Collections and Marine Infrastructure) Information and Data Centre in Hobart.[2]
In 2003, Franklin was replaced as the Marine National Facility by the RV Southern Surveyor and the vessel was sold, first to a group of northern hemisphere private investors, and subsequently (in 2005) to the European marine survey operator MMT, based in Sweden. MMT subsequently became part of the worldwide operator Ocean Infinity. As at 2025, the vessel continues to operate in the northern hemisphere for marine survey work, under the name Northern Franklin; its operations are run via the company Northern Survey by arrangement with MMT, sailing under the flag of Denmark.[3][4][5]
Gallery
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At CSIRO Hobart wharf, late 1986 -
At CSIRO Hobart wharf, late 1986 (detail) -
Start of a research voyage, leaving CSIRO Hobart wharf, late 1986 -
RV Franklin open for inspection, Hobart, January 1987
References
[edit]- ^ "ORV Franklin: 1985-2002 - CSIRO". CSIRO. 2025. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
- ^ "Data Trawler (query: source="Franklin")". CSIRO. 2025. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
- ^ "Northern Franklin". Northern Survey. 2025. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
- ^ "Northern Survey APS". MagicPort. 2025. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
- ^ "Northern Franklin". MagicPort. 2025. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
External links
[edit]- MarLIN metadata records for datasets originating on RV Franklin as held at CSIRO Information and Data Centre (624 items as at July 2025); other data may be held separately at additional science agencies within Australia (per the affiliations of the investigators concerned)
- Description of standard MNF (Marine National Facility) data streams, comprising some or all of the following: the underway data suite (Navigation (NAV), Sounder, Thermosalinograph (TSG) and Meteorological (MET) data), Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth (CTD), Hydrology (salinity, dissolved oxygen and nutrients), Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), multibeam and singlebeam echosounders, sub-bottom profiler and catch records
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