A fishing boat hailing from Valparaiso, 2000 miles away, anchored off Easter Island.

NOAA Ship SURVEYOR. A rough day in the Bering Sea.

COSMOS, skiff, and survey launch.

Wiredrag boat in Puerto Rico.

Landing on a rocky shore. Boat off of SURVEYOR.

Survey launch leaving ship, lower left corner.

COSMOS.

Poling through the ice, Beaufort Sea. C&GS magnetic observer accompanying CG vessel BEAR in Beaufort Sea.

Landing on boulder strewn beach. Under oars - a lost art.

Search for sunken forest with wiredrag.

Landing through surf under oars.

Offloading equipment on rocky shore. World Longitude Network station.

Launch DELTA - note sheave for sounding on stern.

The "Mosquito Fleet".

Note C&GS house flag.

Current measuring boat.

Using boat to measure depth.

Taking boat for a walk over the mudflats. If the tide goes out and you anchor at high tide, you might have to do this.

Row, row, row, your boat .... Topo party landing - Stanley Ohlin, Dagle at oars, Wagner, and Dryman.

Launch WILDCAT at base of 600-foot cliff.

A boat float from the PATHFINDER in Manila parade.

Launch 67 in the mist.

Heaving boat up on the beach for the night.

Launch WILDCAT.

Towing current observation boats to stations - NATOMA in background.

Boat coming alongside.

Launch HELIANTHUS. Note antenna wire - outfitted for radio acoustic ranging.

Offloading supplies for shore station. Whaleboat off EXPLORER.

Steam launch towing skiff.

Launch WILDCAT at base of 550-foot cliff - Palisade Lagoon.

PATHFINDER whaleboats.

Landing at base of cliff.

PEIRCE hydrographic launch approaching ship for pickup. November front had just passed whipping up wind and sea. Mike Briscoe on the bow hook. Strength and agility are the prerequisites. Lt. (j.g.) Victoria Barnum is OIC, "K.P." Keene the coxswain. Ship making lee during approach; boat out of water within two minutes of photo

Caught on a rock with the tide headed out. One of the hazards of having to find the rocks.

Launch WILDCAT in Nuka Bay area.

Recovery of MT. MITCHELL survey launch flipped on to reef by heavy surf. North shore of Puerto Rico. #10 in sequence of photos.

Plastic Pig following stern cable breaking. #2 of photo sequence.

Landing through surf on boulder beach.

Sounding boat from MT. MITCHELL turned over and thrown up on reef. No one killed fortunately - coxswain ended up in engine compartment. # 1 of photo sequence.

Sometimes this job is really great.

Departing beach through the surf.

Launch WILDCAT at base of 550-foot cliff - Palisade Lagoon.

PATHFINDER launch.

RAINIER launch.

Offloading gear at Navassa Island, Caribbean Sea. Launch from PEIRCE.

PATHFINDER with launches on boat booms.

Stern cable snapped dropping Plastic Pig from MT. MITCHELL davits. Note frayed cable in middle right of photo. # 1 of photo sequence

The end of a long day. PEIRCE launch after pickup.

A look back at the DISCOVERER. Old Woman's Bay, Kodiak Island, 1940.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer A. D. BACHE. In service 1871-1900. Atlantic service