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The references used to create the RSV Nuyina page do not contain the most up-to-date information. As the project has progressed some of the ship's dimensions and capacity have changed and many of these changes are reflected on the Australian Antarctic Division's (project owner) website
http://www.antarctica.gov.au/icebreaker/ship-of-the-future/capability.
There are also a few other errors on the page.
Please consider the following changes:
Under Design and Construction:
2nd sentence: change "DMS Maritime (a division of Serco)" to "DMS Maritime Pty Ltd (trading as Serco Defence)"
Under Dimensions, Resupply and General Characteristics:
Length is 160.3 m;
Draught is 9.3 m;
Displacmement full load is 25,500 tonnes;
Capacity is 5000 cubic metres (not 6500 m3) of break bulk cargo;
96 TEU (not 29 TEU);
117 Passengers (not 160);
Liquid cargo 1900 m3 diesel oil and 300 tonnes fresh water (not 200 tonnes);
Science accommodation - 20 x modular science containers (not 24)
Under History:
Operator is Serco Defence (not DMS Maritime);
Namesake is southern lights (not Southern Aurora) in the palawa kani language of Tasmanian Aboriginals
Under Naming:
RSV Aurora Australis (not MV Aurora Australis) and delete the 2018 as the ship will still be in service next year;
In paragraph about naming, change reference from 'Southern Aurora' to 'Southern Lights';
Minister for Environment AND ENERGY, Josh Frydenberg
Under Service:
The ship will be operated by Serco Defence (not DMS Maritime)
Updated according to the source provided + other source — sorry it took a while. I removed the technical details from the article body — these need to be written as prose instead of list. Generally, work is still required, but the ship is still under construction so we have time.
Tupsumato (
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21:18, 3 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Thank you for finding sources that describe the prefix for
Aurora Australis (side quest: perhaps we should move the article to
RSV Aurora Australis for consistency and because the ship is not actually an
icebreaker). However, in case of Nuyinathe shipyard refers to the vessel as "Antarctic Supply and Research Vessel (ASRV)". While the Australian Antarctic Program uses the "RSV" acronym
on their site, it never actually explains it and instead refers to the vessel as for example "Antarctic science and resupply ship". Could the first sentence of the lead section be written as follows:
RSV Nuyina is an icebreaking research and supply vessel intended to support Australian scientific activities in Antarctica.
This would be in line with the prefix+shipname convention used in many Wikipedia articles as well as by almost everyone talking about Nuyina, and avoid the need to actually "open and explain" the acronym. In addition, it would better describe the vessel's role: a sophisticated polar research vessel that also carried out supply missions and thus supports a wide range of scientific activities both onshore and offshore. There are hardly any sources referring to Nuyina as "research survey vessel" and in fact I rarely, if ever, see those specific words (particularly "survey") used to describe polar research vessels.
Tupsumato (
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18:33, 27 February 2021 (UTC)reply
No worries, I don't have any objections to your suggestions. Earlier I also added the definition of the acronym to
Ship prefix and the
RSV disambiguation page, so that should be enough. I'm no expert in this field, but I imagine that the "Survey" part of the acronym refers to the vessel's advanced hydrographic survey capabilities, and I have no idea of how the vessel might be used for other purposes outside the summer resupply season. I note that the "S" is absent from the ship prefix of the other Australian research vessels
RV Southern Surveyor and
RV Investigator (these are much smaller, being 1,594 GT and 6082 GT respectively, compared with 25,500 tonnes for Nuyina).
Incidentally, the
RSV Aurora Australis 1989–2020 page also refers to the interim replacement vessel, MPV Everest, which doesn't yet have an article, though it may deserve one - besides being used for Antarctic resupply, this vessel also took part in the search for
Lion Air Flight 610. I wasn't able to find an official definition of "MPV", but I suspect it may stand for "Multi Purpose Vessel". Cheers,
Bahudhara (
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03:50, 28 February 2021 (UTC)reply
"RV" refers to simply "research vessel" and is indeed more widely used worldwide. I don't know why AAD uses "RSV" but it may be simply because someone started using it and it, well, stuck. Some research vessels are also referred to with the prefix "MV" at least here in Wikipedia (e.g.
MV Xue Long 2) even though they would easily meet the "criteria" for "RSV" as well. There are also "more official" prefixes such as RRS for British research vessels. Generally I dislike using prefixes and include them only in the article name (if needed for disambiguation) and lead section (if the prefix is widely used, as is the case with RSV Nuyina or
RRS Sir David Attenborough). As for MPV Everest, the "prefix" is actually part of the ship's registered name (similar to RCGS Resolute) and is even painted on the vessel itself. It probably refers to MPV Everest being a "multipurpose vessel".
Anyway, I'll see if I get around revising the lead section a bit in the near future together with other improvements and updated to the Nuyina article.
Tupsumato (
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13:23, 28 February 2021 (UTC)reply