The RV Triton and a Lynx naval helicopter

The RV Triton, is a trimaran vessel owned by the Gardline maritime survey company and a former prototype British warship demonstrator for the QinetiQ defence research company. RV Triton - from Royal Navy Official website File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The AgustaWestland Lynx is a helicopter designed by AgustaWestland (formerly Westland Aircraft) and jointly produced with Aérospatiale, first flying on 21 March 1971 as the Westland WG.13. ... A rare occurrence of a 5-country multinational fleet, during Operation Enduring Freedom in the Oman Sea. ... The Bell 206 of Canadian Helicopters Robinson Helicopter Company (USA) R44, a four seat development of the R22 A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors (propellers). ... A trimaran is a multihull boat consisting of a main hull and two smaller outrigger hulls (amas), attached to the main hull with lateral struts (akas). ... Vessel can refer to any of the following: Objects Vessel (French vaissel, from a rare Latin vascellum, diminuitive of vas, vase, or urn), a word of somewhat wide application for many objects, the meaning common to them being capacity to hold or contain something. ... From the latin maritimus, maritime refers to things relating to the sea. ... There are several uses of the word survey: // Kinds of surveys Statistical surveys are used in marketing and polling research. ... Prototypes or prototypical instances combine the most representative attributes of a category. ... USS Port Royal (CG-73), a Ticonderoga class cruiser. ... A demonstration is the public display of the common opinion of a activist group, often economically, political, or socially, by gathering in a crowd, usually at a symbolic place or date, associated with that opinion. ... QinetiQ (pronounced kə-nĕtĭk, as in kinetic energy) is a British defence technology company, created out of the greater part of the government agency DERA when it was split up in June 2001 (with the smaller part forming dstl). ... In military science, defense (or defence) is the art of preventing an enemy from conquering territory. ... Research is an active, diligent, and systematic process of inquiry in order to discover, interpret and/or revise facts. ... A company is, in general, any group of persons (known as its members) united to pursue a common interest. ...

The Triton name is presumably a deliberate reference to the maritime god incorporating the prefix "tri" which relates to the vessel's three parallel hulls. The outriggers are thinner and much shorter than the dominant central hull. In Greek mythology, Triton is the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, the personification of the roaring waters, represented as having the upper body of a human and the tail of a fish. ... A hull is the body or frame of a ship or boat. ... In a canoe or bangca, an outrigger is a thin, long, solid, hull used to stabilise an inherently unstable main hull. ...

Service with QinetiQ

The Triton was designed as a demonstrater to prove that the trimaran concept would work successfully in a large warship. Following its launch in 2000, the ship began an extensive series of trials in 2001, which covered general ship handling, performance, sea-keeping behaviour, but also more specific areas to its design that the Royal Navy had no experience of - for example, a series of docking manouveres were undertaken by the pilot boats of HMNB Portsmouth to determine the problems of docking a large trimaran, while the ship underwent Replenishment at Sea alongside HMS Argyll and the tanker RFA Brambleleaf to ascertain the characteristics of a trimaran and a monohull replenishing at the same time. The Triton also undertook trials of helicopter take off and landing. This article is about the year 2000. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ... This article is about the English city of Portsmouth. ... The third and current HMS Argyll (F231) is a Type 23 Duke Class frigate. ... RFA Brambleleaf (1917) RFA Brambleleaf (1954) RFA Brambleleaf (A81) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Service with Gardline Marine Sciences Limited

Following the end of the Future Surface Combatant project, it was decided that the Triton was no longer necessary, so in 2005, she was sold to Gardline Marine Sciences Limited for conversion into a maritime survey vessel; she will be used as part of the Civil Hydrography Programme on behalf of the United Kingdom's Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The Future Surface Combatant was the projected succesor to Type 22 and Type 23 frigates in service of the British Royal Navy until the programs de facto cancellation in late 2004. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Maritime and Coastguard Agencys Logo The Maritime and Coastguard Agency is a UK government agency working to prevent the loss of lives at searesponsible for implimenting maritime safety policy. ...

See also

• HMS Triton
• Future Surface Combatant

Eight vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Triton or HMS Tryton, after Triton, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, and the personification of the roaring waters: Tryton, originally French ship Triton, was a 42-gun fifth-rate captured in 1702 at the battle of Vigo Bay, and... The Future Surface Combatant was the projected succesor to Type 22 and Type 23 frigates in service of the British Royal Navy until the programs de facto cancellation in late 2004. ...

External links

• http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/trimaran/
• http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/rn/print.php?page=2093