Stuart Lawrence, for three decades a captain of Britain's Antarctic ships, has died

He was awarded the Polar Medal in 1983 and appointed MBE in 1998. He retired in 2003 after 33 Antarctic voyages and 42 years at sea, with a farewell from the Ernest Shackleton in Stanley Captain Stuart Lawrence MBE, who for more than three decades commanded the British Antarctic Survey vessels RRS Bransfield and RRS Ernest Shackleton, has died suddenly, according to the National Coastwatch Institution in Gosport, southern England, where he served as a volunteer watchkeeper.

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