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RRS Discovery’s rudder removed for restoration

Conservation engineer Jim Mitchell from JPS Restoration said it was a “key point” in the project.

He said: “We’re also going to put a steel structure through the stern, where the rudder came out.

“It’s quite difficult because we had to remove a threaded nut on the bottom of the rudder that had been put on in 1901, so it was quite tight as you can imagine.

“So we had to use all sorts of engineering tricks to get it off.”

Mr Mitchell said the rudder needed restored as the timbers had dried out “quite badly” due to the ship being out of the water for three decades.


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