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NOAA's Fleet Then and Now - Sailing for Science Collection
Catalog of Images

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Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER. In service 1942 - 1971. Shishaldin Volcano in background. This photo appeared in National Geographic in 1957.
Unimak Pass, Alaska 1956?
1601 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER. In service 1942 - 1971. Line drawing.
1602 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship OCEANOGRAPHER. In service 1930-1942.
1931
1603 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship COWIE. In service 1941-1962. Atlantic service
1604 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER. In service 1899-1941.
Philippines 1927?
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Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER. In service 1942-1971. Pacific service
Alaska 1959
1606 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship OCEANOGRAPHER. In service 1930-1942. Atlantic service. Etching of OCEANOGRAPHER underway.
1607 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER. In service 1899-1941.
Philippines 1910
1608 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER. In service 1899-1941.
1912?
1609 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER. In service 1942 - 1971. Pacific service
Tuxedni Bay, Cook Inlet, Alaska 1971
1610 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship OCEANOGRAPHER. In service 1930-1942.
1611 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER. In service 1899-1941.
Philippines 1911
1612 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER. In service 1942-1971. Just after being fit out and ready to go to war, 1942.
1613 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER. In service 1942 - 1971.
Seattle 1971
1614 thumbnail picture
NOAA Ship FERREL. In service 1968 - . Atlantic service. A squall kicking up in the Gulf of Mexico.
Gulf of Mexico
1615 thumbnail picture
NOAA Ship SURVEYOR. In service 1960 - 1996. Pacific service. Helicopter operations in the ice in the Bering Sea.
Alaska, Beaufort Sea 1977?
1616 thumbnail picture
NOAA Ship SURVEYOR. In service 1960 -1996. Pacific service. Steaming along the edge of the pack ice.
Alaska, Bering Sea 1977?
1617 thumbnail picture
NOAA Ship SURVEYOR. In service 1960 - 1996. Pacific service. Near disaster - almost stuck in the ice in the Bering Sea.
1618 thumbnail picture
NOAA Ship OCEANOGRAPHER in Shanghai Harbor. In service 1966 - 1996. Pacific and Atlantic service. The first United States Government vessel in China since 1948.
Shanghai, People's Republic of China 1980
1619 thumbnail picture
Coast Survey Brig PETER G. WASHINGTON. In service 1838 - 1861. Served as Coast Survey vessel, revenue cutter, and as naval vessel. Captured Cinque and schooner AMISTAD in Long Island Sound. Destroyed in Mississippi by Confederates in 1862
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Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer F. R. HASSLER. In service 1871-1895. Pacific service
1621 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer BLAKE. In service 1874 -1905. Atlantic service. Classic Gulf Stream studies, many instrument innovations. Pioneered deepsea anchoring
Caribbean Sea, Windward Passage 1880's
1622 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer MCARTHUR. In service 1876 -1915. Alaska service
Alaska
1623 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Schooner EAGRE. In service 1878 -1903. Atlantic service
1624 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer PATTERSON. In service 1884 -1919. Pacific service
Seattle, Washington
1625 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer PATTERSON. In service 1884 -1919. Pacific service. Note black hull.
1626 thumbnail picture
Steam Launch COSMOS. In service 1888 -1927. Alaska service
1627 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer YUKON. In service 1898 -1923. Alaska service. Under sail and steam.
1628 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer EXPLORER. In service 1904 -1939. Pacific service
1629 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship ISIS. In service 1915 -1920. Atlantic service. Vessel hit obstruction off Florida coast and sank in 1920.
1630 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship SIALIA. In service 1919-1920. Atlantic service. Many mechanical problems led to returning vessel to Navy in 1920.
1631 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship LYDONIA. In service 1919-1947. Atlantic and Pacific service
1632 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship HYDROGRAPHER. In service 1930 -1967. Atlantic service
1965?
1633 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship GILBERT. In service 1930-1962. Atlantic service
1634 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER. In service 1942 -1971. Pacific service
Seattle, Washington 1971
1635 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer YUKON. In service 1898 -1923. Alaska service. Tied up at Moravian Mission.
Alaska Southwest, Bethel 1915
1636 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATTON. In service 1941-1967. Pacific service
1637 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship COWIE. In service 1941-1962. Atlantic service
1638 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship HILGARD. In service 1942-1967. Atlantic service
1639 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship SOSBEE. In service 1945-1961. Atlantic service. Vessel used primarily to test new equipment.
Florida Gulf Coast
1640 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship HODGSON. In service 1946-1967. Pacific service
1641 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship LYDONIA. In service 1919-1947. Atlantic and Pacific service. Note CS302 designator
1944?
1642 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship SCOTT. In service 1955-1964. Atlantic service
1643 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship MARMER. In service 1958-1968. Atlantic service
1644 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PIONEER. In service 1946-1966. Pacific service
1645 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer THOMAS R. GEDNEY. In service 1875-1915. Pacific service
1646 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER. In service 1942 - 1971. Pacific service
Seattle, Washington 1971
1647 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER. In service 1942 - 1971. Pacific service
Seattle, Washington 1971
1648 thumbnail picture
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PIONEER. In service 1946-1956. Pacific service. This ship towed the first marine magnetometer. It discovered magnetic striping, the key to plate tectonics
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco 1952?
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Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship SURVEYOR. In service 1917-1956. Pacific service

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