Oceanographic operations on the Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PIONEER. Lieutenant Commander Harley Nygren on the platform.

Oceanographic operations on the Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PIONEER. Attaching Nansen water sampling bottle and thermometer to wire.

Stern of the USC&GS Ship PIONEER tied up somewhere in San Francisco Bay. This was possibly during the great magnetic survey of the West Coast that led to the discovery of magnetic striping on the seafloor, a key to plate tectonics.

USC&GS Ship PIONEER moored at pier.

Looking aft from bow of USC&GS ship PIONEER

Oceanographic operations on the Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PIONEER. Attaching Nansen water sampling bottle and thermometer to wire.

USC&GS ship HYDROGRAPHER

USC&GS vessel SOSBEE. This vessel was used primarily for new equipment and methodology testing. In shipyard somewhere on the Gulf Coast.

USC&GS vessel SOSBEE. This vessel was used primarily for new equipment and methodology testing. In shipyard somewhere on the Gulf Coast.

USC&GS vessel SOSBEE. This vessel was used primarily for new equipment and methodology testing. In shipyard somewhere on the Gulf Coast.

USC&GS vessel SOSBEE. This vessel was used primarily for new equipment and methodology testing. In shipyard somewhere on the Gulf Coast.

Launch coming alongside USC&GS ship PATHFINDER after day of hydrography

Work party leaving USC&GS Ship PATHFINDER. Probably installing tide gauge.

Work party returning to USC&GS Ship PATHFINDER at end of day.

Launch from USC&GS Ship PATHFINDER towing native umiak, a skin-covered boat larger than the one or two man kayaks.

Launch from USC&GS Ship PATHFINDER towing native umiak, a skin-covered boat larger than the one or two man kayaks.

Launch preparing for day's work prior to departing USC&GS Ship PATHFINDER

Member of steward's department on USC&GS Ship PATHFINDER displaying king crab that probably became part of dinner.

USC&GS Ship BOWIE traversing the Inside Passage on a nasty snowy day.

Balloon buoy combination with elevated radar reflector. Probably a buoy used to calibrate electronic navigation system for offshore surveying operations on the USC&GS Ship PATHFINDER

Lt.(j.g.) Albert Theberge on formerly USC&GS Ship SURVEYOR, now NOAA Ship SURVEYOR, as it returns to Seattle in November, 1970. The ship steamed (and it was the last steamer in the USC&GS fleet) 63,000 nautical miles that year on survey operations, equivalent to more than 2 1/2 times around the Earth.

NOAA Ship OCEANOGRAPHER, flagship of NOAA's fleet at the time, in waters of Peoples Republic of China, the first U.S. Government vessel to enter Chinese waters since 1948. The vessel was there helping open up diplomatic relations with the Chinese government.

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Stern of Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER tied up in Cook Inlet.

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USC&GS Ship SURVEYOR

USC&GS Ship DERICKSON at Kirkland Shipyard

USC&GS Ship SURVEYOR on ways and USC&GS Ship EXPLORER tied up

USC&GS Ship DERICKSON

USC&GS Ship DERICKSON stern view showing work boats and sounding boats

USC&GS Ship EXPLORER tied up in Seattle or Kirkland area. This was either shortly before or shortly after commissioning of the ship

USC&GS Ship SURVEYOR tied up probably at Kirkland shipyard. Probably just before going on the ways as looks to be in need of paint job.

Possibly a USC&GS workboat with a new outboard motor

Even in 1940 oars were still a primary means of propulsion. Woodrow Wilson Gholston is on the forward portside oar. Whaleboat off the USC&GS SURVEYOR.

Fisheries researchers dragging boat over log jam on Pacific Northwest salmon stream.

Fisheries researchers dragging boat over log jam on Pacific Northwest salmon stream.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship SURVEYOR under construction at National Steel and Shipbuilding shipyard.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship SURVEYOR under construction at National Steel and Shipbuilding shipyard.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship SURVEYOR under construction at National Steel and Shipbuilding shipyard.

1969 envelope stamped from Barbados with all ships engaged in BOMEX experiment having franked envelope and having commanding officers sign envelope. The Barbados stamps selected for the enveloped have beautiful depictions of local marine life.

NOAA Ship PISCES

NOAA Ship PISCES

Bridge of NOAA Ship PISCES

View of drydock from NOAA Ship PISCES

NOAA Ship PISCES floated into drydock.

NOAA Ship PISCES in drydock with water pumped out

Transducer on the hull of the NOAA Ship PISCES