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

1850 thumbnail picture
USCGC POLAR SEA in shipyard. The POLAR SEA is a heavy icebreaker homeported in Seattle, Washington.
Washington, Seattle
1851 thumbnail picture
Containership FOUNA passed by NOAA Ship BELL SHIMADA while approaching Panama Canal.
Panama, Colon area
1852 thumbnail picture
Ships waiting to transit Panama Canal.
Panama, Colon area
1853 thumbnail picture
Pilot boat approaching vessel waiting to transit the Panama Canal.
Panama, Colon area
1854 thumbnail picture
The Panama Pilot Boat ILKA underway.
Panama, Colon area
1855 thumbnail picture
Passing the containership SANTA CATALINA while approaching locks from the Caribbean side of the Panama Canal. From the NOAA ship BELL SHIMADA.
Panama, Colon area
1856 thumbnail picture
Passing the containership SANTA CATALINA while approaching locks from the Caribbean side of the Panama Canal. From the NOAA ship BELL SHIMADA.
Panama, Colon area
1857 thumbnail picture
Passing the containership SANTA CATALINA while approaching locks from the Caribbean side of the Panama Canal. From the NOAA ship BELL SHIMADA.
Panama, Colon area
1858 thumbnail picture
Passing the containership SANTA CATALINA while approaching locks from the Caribbean side of the Panama Canal. From the NOAA ship BELL SHIMADA.
Panama, Colon area
1859 thumbnail picture
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography research vessel NEW HORIZON.
California, San Diego, Point Loma
1860 thumbnail picture
Twinkling lights of containership passing on a moonlit ocean.
1861 thumbnail picture
Fishing vessel NORTH CAPE tied up at Seattle.
Washington, Seattle
1862 thumbnail picture
Cruise ships at Juneau.
Alaska, Juneau
1863 thumbnail picture
Fishing vessel LOVEY JOANN on the ways for maintenance.
Alaska, Juneau
1864 thumbnail picture
Float planes and cruise ships at Juneau.
Alaska, Juneau
1865 thumbnail picture
The ORCA EXPRESS, a whale-watching tour boat.
Alaska, Juneau
1866 thumbnail picture
Hybrid catamaran/pontoon research vessel KILO MOANA, operated by the University of Hawaii.
Hawaii, Honolulu
1867 thumbnail picture
The Japanese fisheries training vessel SATSUMASEIUN MARU.
Hawaii, Honolulu
1868 thumbnail picture
Cruise ship PRIDE OF AMERICA
1869 thumbnail picture
A cruise ship sailing into the sunset
1870 thumbnail picture
A cruise ship sailing into the sunset
1871 thumbnail picture
Inflatable boat leaves the NOAA ship OSCAR ELTON SETTE while the cruise ship PRIDE OF AMERICA is anchored offshore.
1872 thumbnail picture
Description not available.
1873 thumbnail picture
Description not available.
1874 thumbnail picture
Description not available.
1875 thumbnail picture
Bulk carrier in Muskegon Channel
1876 thumbnail picture
Catamaran ferry LAKE EXPRESS entering Muskegon.
Michigan, Muskegon
1877 thumbnail picture
Description not available.
1878 thumbnail picture
HMCS Assiniboine (DDH 234) a St. Laurent class destroyer.
Alaska, Dutch Harbor
1879 thumbnail picture
Revenue Cutter (broadside) and C&GS Ship EXPLORER at Unalaska (Dutch Harbor)
Alaska, Dutch Harbor 1913 circa
1880 thumbnail picture
The freighter MELVILLE DOLLAR at Security Cove
Alaska, North of Bristol Bay 1913 circa
1881 thumbnail picture
Steamer YUKON of the Alaska Commercial Company with coal for the C&GS ship YUKON at Goodnews Bay
Alaska, Goodnews Bay 1913
1882 thumbnail picture
Push boat on the Yukon River
Alaska
1883 thumbnail picture
NOAA Ship SURVEYOR. A rough day in the Bering Sea.
Alaska, Bering Sea 1979 ca.
1884 thumbnail picture
COSMOS, skiff, and survey launch.
Southeast Alaska 1916
1885 thumbnail picture
Wiredrag boat in Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico 1921
1886 thumbnail picture
Landing on a rocky shore. Boat off of SURVEYOR.
Alaska 1925
1887 thumbnail picture
Survey launch leaving ship, lower left corner.
Alaska, Aleutian Islands
1888 thumbnail picture
COSMOS.
Southeast Alaska 1916
1889 thumbnail picture
Poling through the ice, Beaufort Sea. C&GS magnetic observer accompanying CG vessel BEAR in Beaufort Sea.
Near Demarcation Point, Alaska 1921
1890 thumbnail picture
Landing on boulder strewn beach. Under oars - a lost art.
Alaska 1949
1891 thumbnail picture
Search for sunken forest with wiredrag.
Washington, Lake Washington 1920
1892 thumbnail picture
Landing through surf under oars.
West Coast United States 1926
1893 thumbnail picture
Offloading equipment on rocky shore. World Longitude Network station.
Necker Island, Mid-Pacific 1928
1894 thumbnail picture
Launch DELTA - note sheave for sounding on stern.
Southeast Alaska 1931
1895 thumbnail picture
The "Mosquito Fleet".
Southeast Alaska 1927
1896 thumbnail picture
Note C&GS house flag.
Southeast Alaska 1922
1897 thumbnail picture
Current measuring boat.
Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island 1930
1898 thumbnail picture
Using boat to measure depth.
Gulf Coast 1935
1899 thumbnail picture
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.
Alaska

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