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Natural Environment Research Council

Headquarters: Polaris House
Founded: 1965
Employees: —

Official website

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

14,363

Summed over 3 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Natural Environment Research Council is

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The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is a council of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, responsible for supporting research, training and knowledge transfer activities in the environmental sciences.

Quoted from Natural Environment Research Council on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: —
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United Kingdom
Headquarters: Polaris House
Formed in: —
Founded: 1965
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 51.5668, -1.7855

Ships on record here: 3
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 32.3 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1962
Newest vessel on record: 2013
Largest vessel by tonnage: 5,954
Average tonnage: 4,788
Market share: —
Parent company: UK Research and Innovation
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Corporate structure

Ownership and holdings

Parent company

UK Research and Innovation

Subsidiaries and units (5)

British Geological SurveyBritish Oceanographic Data CentreUK Centre for Ecology & HydrologyNational Centre for Atmospheric ScienceNational Oceanography Centre

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 3 vessels this registry attributes to Natural Environment Research Council. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Research / survey3

By flag state

United Kingdom3

By shipbuilder

Flekkefjord Slipp & Maskinfabrikk AS1

Freire Shipyard1

Hall, Russell & Company1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	3
2018	—	3
2019	—	3
2020	—	3
2021	—	3
2022	—	3
2023	—	3
2024	—	3
2025	—	3
2026	—	3

Vessel records

Ships on record

3 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
RRS Discovery	9588029	Research / survey	United Kingdom	2013	5,954	—	99.7 m	Freire Shipyard
RRS James Cook	9338242	Research / survey	United Kingdom	2006	5,401	—	89.2 m	Flekkefjord Slipp & Maskinfabrikk AS
RRS Discovery	5090660	Research / survey	United Kingdom	1962	3,008	4,378	79.6 m	Hall, Russell & Company

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Natural Environment Research Council compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 3 vessels attributed to it here, Natural Environment Research Council is the 262nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

United Kingdom is the country of registration for 97 commercial operators in this directory, among which Natural Environment Research Council ranks 18th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 260 vessels here. See every operator registered in United Kingdom.

Founded in 1965, Natural Environment Research Council is 61 years old. This directory holds 96 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.