Petition Rename the RRS Sir David Attenborough to RRS Boaty McBoatface

Britain is known worldwide for both it's excellent scientific research and sense of humour. NERC should accept the choice of RRS Boaty McBoatface (124,109 votes), rather than for RRS Sir David Attenborough (10,284 votes) and respect the true democratic result and excellent British wit.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

54 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 54 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Show on a map the geographical breakdown of signatures by constituency

10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 9 November 2016
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.