DISCOVERER 1967.
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 4:44 pm
Built as an oceanographic research vessel by Aerojet-General Shipyard Corp., Jacksonville, Florida for the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey.
29 October 1964 launched under the name DISCOVERER
Tonnage 3.000 gross, 1.225 dw. Dim. 303 x 52.66 x 18ft. (draught). Displacement 3.959 tons.
Powered by four 8-cyl. Fairbanks Morse diesels/electric drive 5.748 bhp., twin screws, speed 16 knots.
One bow-thruster 400 hp., which provides precise maneuvering.
Compl. 14 officers, 78 ratings and 18 scientists.
She is ice strengthened.
Endurance 31 days.
Fitted out with a center well of 8 x 6 feet to give access to sea for scuba divers, and for lowering research equipment. She has a bow observation chamber with six ports.
23 April 1967 completed.
Later transferred to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at Rockville, MD.
1973 Out of service, and placed in reserve, subsequently again in service.
Her career included two of the largest oceanographic experiments ever conducted.
She operated in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans from the Arctic to the Antarctic ice shelf, and she has provided the ocean platform for exciting oceanographic and atmospheric research in areas as diverse as biological communities found in hydrothermal vents beneath the ocean floor, to global warming.
One of her last voyages called “Vents”; scientists used side-scan sonar to produce images with unprecedented detail of seafloor characteristics and sub-seafloor structures for three areas on the Juan de Fuca and Gorda Ridges. Vents is a study of recent volcanic eruptions and hydrothermal venting processes near undersea volcanoes.
1998 Again out of service, when a new research vessel was commissioned.
Most probably then transferred to the United States Government, Department of Commerce, Washington DC., she were in 2008 as given by http://www.equasis.org the owners and managers of the DISCOVERER. IMO No. 6600814. Call sign WTEA.
On Palau 1997 32c sg 1209.
Source: Some web-sites. Watercraft Philately Vol. 44 page 82.
29 October 1964 launched under the name DISCOVERER
Tonnage 3.000 gross, 1.225 dw. Dim. 303 x 52.66 x 18ft. (draught). Displacement 3.959 tons.
Powered by four 8-cyl. Fairbanks Morse diesels/electric drive 5.748 bhp., twin screws, speed 16 knots.
One bow-thruster 400 hp., which provides precise maneuvering.
Compl. 14 officers, 78 ratings and 18 scientists.
She is ice strengthened.
Endurance 31 days.
Fitted out with a center well of 8 x 6 feet to give access to sea for scuba divers, and for lowering research equipment. She has a bow observation chamber with six ports.
23 April 1967 completed.
Later transferred to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at Rockville, MD.
1973 Out of service, and placed in reserve, subsequently again in service.
Her career included two of the largest oceanographic experiments ever conducted.
She operated in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans from the Arctic to the Antarctic ice shelf, and she has provided the ocean platform for exciting oceanographic and atmospheric research in areas as diverse as biological communities found in hydrothermal vents beneath the ocean floor, to global warming.
One of her last voyages called “Vents”; scientists used side-scan sonar to produce images with unprecedented detail of seafloor characteristics and sub-seafloor structures for three areas on the Juan de Fuca and Gorda Ridges. Vents is a study of recent volcanic eruptions and hydrothermal venting processes near undersea volcanoes.
1998 Again out of service, when a new research vessel was commissioned.
Most probably then transferred to the United States Government, Department of Commerce, Washington DC., she were in 2008 as given by http://www.equasis.org the owners and managers of the DISCOVERER. IMO No. 6600814. Call sign WTEA.
On Palau 1997 32c sg 1209.
Source: Some web-sites. Watercraft Philately Vol. 44 page 82.