HMS Scott (H131)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Scott.

HMS Scott at the British Antarctic Territory, 2010
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Scott
Operator Royal Navy
Ordered20 January 1995[1]
BuilderAppledore Shipbuilders, Bideford (Subcontracted from BAeSEMA)
Launched13 October 1996[1]
Commissioned30 June 1997[1]
RefitMajor 2013-2014
HomeportHMNB Devonport, Plymouth
Identification
Statusin active service
Badge
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeScott-class ocean survey vessel[3]
Displacement13,500 t (13,300 long tons; 14,900 short tons)
Length131.1 m (430 ft)
Beam21.5 m (71 ft)
Draught8.3 m (27 ft)
Propulsion
  • 2 × Krupp MaK 9M32 9-cylinder diesel engines
  • Single shaft with controllable-pitch propeller
  • Retractable bow thruster
Speed18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement78
Sensors and
processing systems
  • Kelvin Hughes ARPA 1626, I-band navigation radar
  • Sonar array sounding system (SASS)
  • Proton magnetometer
  • Sonar 2090 ocean environment sensor
  • SASS IV multibeam depth-sounder

HMS Scott is an ocean survey vessel of the Royal Navy, and the only vessel of her class. She is the third Royal Navy ship to carry the name, and the second to be named after the Antarctic explorer, Robert Falcon Scott. She was ordered to replace the survey ship HMS Hecla.[1]

Construction

The ship was ordered from BAeSEMA in 1995 to replace the ageing HMS Hecla. She was built at the Appledore Shipbuilders in North Devon and launched on 13 October 1996 by Mrs Carolyn Portillo,[4] wife of Michael Portillo, the then-Secretary of State for Defence. She was commissioned on 20 June 1997. Not only is she the largest vessel in the Royal Navy's Hydrographic Squadron, and the fifth largest in the entire surface fleet, but she is also the largest survey vessel in Western Europe.

Role

Scott is the Royal Navy's only ocean survey vessel.[5] She can remain at sea for up to 300 days a year, thanks to her crew rotation system. Her complement of 78 is divided into three sections: two sections are required to keep the ship operational, with the third on shore on leave or in training.[4] When the ship returns to port, one crew section on board is replaced by the section on shore. The ship can then deploy again almost immediately. As with all of the Royal Navy's large survey vessels, Scott has an auxiliary role in support of mine countermeasure vessels.[1]

Service

In February 2005 Scott surveyed the seabed around the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which varies in depth between 1,000 m (3,300 ft) and 5,000 m (16,000 ft). The survey, conducted using a high-resolution, multi-beam sonar system, revealed that the earthquake had made a huge impact on the topography of the seabed.

In September 2006, Scott was granted the Freedom of the City of Swansea.[6] From August 2008 until June 2009 she was refitted in Portsmouth.[7]

HMS Scott at anchor near Port Lockroy in the Antarctic

On 26 October 2009[7] and again on 25 November 2010[8] the ship deployed to the South Atlantic and Antarctic to cover for the non-availability of the Royal Navy icebreaker HMS Endurance.[9] In February 2010, Scott hosted artist Rowan Huntley for a month in Antarctica, in a new artist-in-residence programme for the Royal Navy inaugurated by the Friends of the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI).[10]

In June 2010, the ship visited Cardiff to mark the centenary of Robert Falcon Scott's departure from Cardiff on 15 June 1910 for the South Pole, at the start of the Terra Nova Expedition.[11] In February 2011, Scott hosted Dafila Scott, Scott's granddaughter, in Antarctica for a month as the Friends of the SPRI's second artist-in-residence.[12]

The ship returned to Devonport in April 2011.[13] With the task of Antarctic patrol taken over by HMS Protector in that year,[14] Scott left Devonport in September to resume deep-water surveying, initially in the Atlantic.[13] From November 2013 to June 2014 her most extensive refit to date took place, in Devonport. This included coating the hull with Hempasil X3 non-toxic anti-fouling paint, which is expected to increase her fuel efficiency.[15]

The Ministry of Defence stated in October 2017 that the planned out-of-service date for Scott was to be 2022.[16] In February 2022, it was indicated that the out of service date would be extended to 2023.[17] In March 2023, and in advance of her purported decommissioning, the Defence Equipment Sales Authority (DESA) listed HMS Scott as for sale.[18] However, in May 2023 it was reported that she would receive a major life extension refit and her service life would now be extended up to 2033 when she is likely to be replaced by the second Multi-Role Ocean Surveillance Ship which may be a new-build vessel for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.[19] In the interim, HMS Scott underwent a shorter maintenance period in Gibraltar to continue operations during 2023.[20]

She visited the United States in 2023 participating in US Navy Fleet Week from the 24th to the 29th May.[1] From there she visited Portsmouth, New Hampshire where her ship's company participated in the Portsmouth 400th anniversary celebrations. The ship's company also visited the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Cemetery. On 3rd June, 2023 they participated in a Remembrance Service organised by the British & Commonwealth Remembrance Project[21][failed verification] laying a wreath at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Royal Navy graves at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Cemetery.

It has been reported that Scott would now carry at least one of the new 11-metre survey module variants of the Sea-class workboats being procured for various tasks in the Royal Navy.[22][23] In late 2024, Scott entered refit at A&P Falmouth to extend her service life to the early 2030s.[24]

Affiliations

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Jane's Fighting Ships, 2004-2005. London, UK: Jane's Information Group Limited. 2004. p. 815. ISBN 0-7106-2623-1.
  2. ^ "HMS Scott". FleetMon.com. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  3. ^ "Survey Vessels: HMS Scott". ArmedForces.co.uk. Retrieved 20 December 2008.
  4. ^ a b "HMS Scott". Royal Navy. Archived from the original on 9 February 2008. Retrieved 15 November 2008.
  5. ^ "HMS Scott". Royal Navy. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
  6. ^ a b "HMS Scott accepts Freedom of the City". City and County of Swansea. 15 September 2006. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2008.
  7. ^ a b "HMS Scott: The Journey to the Ends of the Earth". Royal Navy. 28 October 2009. Archived from the original on 26 November 2009. Retrieved 10 November 2009.
  8. ^ "Scott takes Pole position again". Navy News. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
  9. ^ "HMS Scott deploys to Antarctic". Royal Navy. 29 October 2009. Archived from the original on 8 December 2009. Retrieved 10 November 2009.
  10. ^ "Artist's month at threatened pole". BBC News. 6 February 2010. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
  11. ^ "HMS Scott docks in Cardiff Bay". BBC News. 10 June 2010. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
  12. ^ "Antarctica: Scott's granddaughter retraces his journey". BBC News. 3 February 2011. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
  13. ^ a b "Antarctic survey vessel HMS Scott leaves Devonport base". BBC News. 13 September 2011. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
  14. ^ Nimmo, Joe (24 June 2011). "HMS Protector is welcomed into the fleet". The News. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
  15. ^ "Great Scott! New refit includes a slick "green" hull for Plymouth-based Royal Navy survey ship". Plymouth Herald. 21 June 2014. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
  16. ^ Pollard, Luke (30 October 2017). "HMS Scott:Written question - 109631". UK Parliament. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  17. ^ "Royal Navy's ocean survey vessel HMS Scott extended in service | Navy Lookout". 17 February 2022.
  18. ^ "UK MoD says significant interest in HMS Scott and Type 23 frigates". Naval Technology. 6 March 2023. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  19. ^ "The Royal Navy's ocean survey vessel HMS Scott life extended until 2033". Navy Lookout. 26 May 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  20. ^ "HMS Scott arrives in Gibraltar". Gibraltar Chronicle. 17 February 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  21. ^ "Home". British And Commonwealth Remembrance Project. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  22. ^ "ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK SEA Class – Delivering an Innovative, Flexible, Cost-effective Solution to the UK MOD". thyssenkrupp-marinesystems.com. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  23. ^ "In focus: the versatile new workboats being built for the Royal Navy". Navy Lookout. 6 August 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  24. ^ "HMS Scott begins life extension refit in Falmouth". Navy Lookout. 5 November 2024. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  25. ^ a b c d e f "HMS Scott Affiliations". Royal Navy. Archived from the original on 18 March 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
  26. ^ "Maidstone Sea Cadets". TS Scott 229. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
  27. ^ "Home". The Captain Scott Society. March 2007. Archived from the original on 17 September 2008. Retrieved 15 November 2008.
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