Construction has actually begun on the UK’s brand-new advanced polar research study ship that previously this year acted as the ideas for the now-famous Boaty McBoatface net meme.

The ship, which will really be provided the name RRS Sir David Attenborough, is being developed by the Cammell Laird shipyard in Liverpool as well as reached its very first building and construction landmark Monday with the laying of the keel.

The ₤ 200 million vessel was appointed by the UK’s clinical research study firm NERC, which previously this year asked the net’s assistance in calling the vessel. Almost instantaneously the name user-submitted name “Boaty McBoatface” started trending online as well as took place to win the competition by a landslide.

NERC inevitably selected the name Sir David Attenborough, after the renowned English broadcaster as well as biologist, as a better name for the vessel– naturally. As a homage NERC will certainly rather be calling the ship’s advanced subsea automobile, which it introduced Monday, none aside from Boaty McBoatfaceThe Autosub Long Range (ALR) independent undersea automobile is run by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) as well as will certainly be utilized by oceanographers aboard to Sir David Attenborough to gauge sea as well as seabed residential properties over sea ranges.

“The RRS Sir David Attenborough will be one of the most advanced polar research vessels in the world and will help ensure world-class polar and deep ocean science in the decades to come,” stated NERCChief Executive Duncan Wingham “Today’s keel laying ceremony marks the start of an exciting construction process here at Cammell Laird, which will make new science possible from 2019. While it might seem remote to the UK, it is vital to understand the polar region as one of the first places where we see the impact of global environmental changes.”