Can someone help my confusion regarding a small UK research vessel. Im Equasis, the only RV Discovery is IMO 8861632. We have one coming into Southampton IMO 9135230, which is not in Equasis. Photographs on the web show an almost identical vessel under both IMO numbers. If 9135230 is the extant version, what happened to the 8861632 vessel ?
Boith show the same call sign, 2AEL8 and the same MMSI 235058988
Can anyone throw any light on this?
Allan