Pilot house of HILGARD.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship WAINWRIGHT ca. 1965 in ESSA colors and designator ASV83.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship STIRNI.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PARKER, BOWEN, or STIRNI.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PARKER.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship EXPLORER ca. 1915 in Alaskan waters.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER in Seattle with ESSA designator and colors ca. 1967.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship SURVEYOR, "Old Workhorse."

NOAA Fisheries Research Ship ALBATROSS ca. 1971.

Launch HELIANTHUS underway in Alaska ca. 1925.

NOAA Fisheries Research Ship ALBATROSS ca. 1971.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship SURVEYOR ca. 1915. This picture was taken shortly after the ship was constructed.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PIONEER ca. 1924.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATTON ca. 1942.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship McARTHUR ca. 1915.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER in Seattle ca. 1961.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER in Seattle ca. 1957.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship WAINWRIGHT and WHITING ca. 1965 at ESSA's Atlantic Marine Center in Norfolk.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship SOSBEE. In service 1945-1961.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship SURVEYOR, "Old Workhorse".

The Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATTON underway in southeast Alaska.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship GILBERT.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship SCOTT.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship COWIE.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship HILGARD.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship LESTER JONES during sea trials 1940.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship WAINWRIGHT.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATTON off Seattle.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship LESTER JONES in SE Alaska ca. 1963.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PIONEER, formerly USS MOBJACK, prior to being converted for C&GS work.

Fisheries Research vessel GEORGE M. BOWERS.

Fisheries Research Ship TOWNSEND CROMWELL.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship SURVEYOR off Norfolk, Virginia, in 1919, showing Star and Chevron on stack for having taken part in WWI combat operations in the North Atlantic.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship COWIE.

An artist's conception of the ESSA Ship OCEANOGRAPHER ca. 1965.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PIONEER, formerly USS MOBJACK, in the Aleutians. Note absence of gun on bow as seen in image ship0974.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATTON off Seattle.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship HYDROGRAPHER.

ESSA Ship OCEANOGRAPHER ca. 1967. Compare to image ship0979.

NOAA Fisheries Research Ship GEORGE B. KELEZ.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship WHITING at Norfolk.

U.S. Lake Survey vessel Number 1 on a mud bank in the Middle Channel.

U.S. Lake Survey vessel Number 1 on a mud bank in the Middle Channel.

U.S. Lake Survey catamaran on Section Gorge.

U.S. Lake Survey catamaran on Section South East Bend South Channel.

Pilot house of USC&GS Ship HYDROGRAPHER showing fathometer, radio compass, and barograph.

Pilot house of USC&GS Ship HYDROGRAPHER showing bridge control for propulsion motor, automatic steering, gyro-compass repeater, clear vision disc, and engine room telegraph.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship LYDONIA crossing the Humboldt Bay Bar.

NOAA Fisheries Research Ship OREGON II at the Pascagoula Ship Base.

NOAA Ship FAIRWEATHER with Mount Fairweather in the background.