| 1900 |  |
Row, row, row, your boat .... Topo party landing - Stanley Ohlin, Dagle at oars, Wagner, and Dryman. |
Alaska Aleutian Islands, Cabin Cove, Yunaska Is. 1940 |
1901 |  |
Launch WILDCAT at base of 600-foot cliff. |
Nuka Bay, Alaska 1928 |
1902 |  |
A boat float from the PATHFINDER in Manila parade. |
Manila, Philippines 1913? |
1903 |  |
Launch 67 in the mist. |
Alaska , Annex Creek 1929 |
1904 |  |
Heaving boat up on the beach for the night. |
Philippines 1925 |
1905 |  |
Launch WILDCAT. |
Nuka Bay area, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska 1928 |
1906 |  |
Towing current observation boats to stations - NATOMA in background. |
San Franciso Bay 1923 |
1907 |  |
Boat coming alongside. |
Alaska, Aleutian Islands 1940? |
1908 |  |
Launch HELIANTHUS. Note antenna wire - outfitted for radio acoustic ranging. |
Alaska 1927 |
1909 |  |
Offloading supplies for shore station. Whaleboat off EXPLORER. |
Point Spencer, Bering Sea 1950 |
1910 |  |
Steam launch towing skiff. |
Alaska 1915? |
1911 |  |
Launch WILDCAT at base of 550-foot cliff - Palisade Lagoon. |
Nuka Bay, Alaska 1927 |
1912 |  |
PATHFINDER whaleboats. |
Alaska |
1913 |  |
Landing at base of cliff. |
Alaska 1927 |
1914 |  |
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 |
Delaware Bay, New Jersey side. 1985 |
1915 |  |
Caught on a rock with the tide headed out. One of the hazards of having to find the rocks. |
Alaska 1915 |
1916 |  |
Launch WILDCAT in Nuka Bay area. |
Nuka Bay, Kenai Peninsula. 1927 |
1917 |  |
Recovery of MT. MITCHELL survey launch flipped on to reef by heavy surf. North shore of Puerto Rico. #10 in sequence of photos. |
Puerto Rico |
1918 |  |
Plastic Pig following stern cable breaking. #2 of photo sequence. |
Norfolk, Virginia 1975? |
1919 |  |
Landing through surf on boulder beach. |
Alaska 1949 |
1920 |  |
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. |
Puerto Rico |
1921 |  |
Sometimes this job is really great. |
Alaska |
1922 |  |
Departing beach through the surf. |
Philippines 1932? |
1923 |  |
Launch WILDCAT at base of 550-foot cliff - Palisade Lagoon. |
Nuka Bay, Alaska 1927 |
1924 |  |
PATHFINDER launch. |
Philippines 1911 |
1925 |  |
RAINIER launch. |
Off southeast coast of the island of Hawaii |
1926 |  |
Offloading gear at Navassa Island, Caribbean Sea. Launch from PEIRCE. |
Navassa Island, Caribbean Sea 1982 |
1927 |  |
PATHFINDER with launches on boat booms. |
Philippines 1911 |
1928 |  |
Stern cable snapped dropping Plastic Pig from MT. MITCHELL davits. Note frayed cable in middle right of photo. # 1 of photo sequence |
Norfolk, Virginia 1975? |
1929 |  |
The end of a long day. PEIRCE launch after pickup. |
Delaware Bay, New Jersey side November 1985 |
1930 |  |
A look back at the DISCOVERER. Old Woman's Bay, Kodiak Island, 1940. |
Alaska, Kodiak Island 1940 |
1931 |  |
Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer A. D. BACHE. In service 1871-1900. Atlantic service |
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1932 |  |
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship BACHE. In service 1901-1927. Atlantic service |
1922 |
1933 |  |
Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer BLAKE. In service 1874-1905. Note cable leading from bow, ship anchored in 600 fathoms. Current surveys in the Windward Passage. |
Caribbean Sea, Windward Passage |
1934 |  |
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship HODGSON. In service 1946-1967. Pacific service |
Alaska, Keku Strait, Southeast 1965 |
1935 |  |
Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS I. |
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1936 |  |
Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer A. D. BACHE. In service 1871-1900. Atlantic service |
1889 |
1937 |  |
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship BACHE. In service 1901 -1927. |
Gulf of Mexico 1910 |
1938 |  |
Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer BLAKE - in service 1874-1905. Note cable leading from bow, ship anchored in 600 fathoms. This vessel pioneered deepsea anchoring under John Elliott Pillsbury. Current surveys in the Windward Passage. |
Caribbean Sea, Windward Passage 1888? |
1939 |  |
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ships BOWIE and HODGSON. In service 1946-1967. Pacific service |
1965? |
1940 |  |
Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS I. In service 1882 - 1921. On station conducting oceanographic operations |
Alaska |
1941 |  |
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship BACHE. In service 1901-1927. |
Georgia coast 1924 |
1942 |  |
Coast Survey Steamer BIBB as sketched by Xanthus Smith. In service 1847-1873 (Caption on photo is incorrect). BIBB served as pilot vessel, survey vessel, despatch vessel, and combatant. Most of Civil War with South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. |
Port Royal Sound, South Carolina 1862? |
1943 |  |
Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer BLAKE. In service 1874-1905. Frontispiece of "Deepsea Sounding and Dredging" by Charles D. Sigsbee, 1880. Library Call Number GC75.S53 1880. |
Washington Navy Yard |
1944 |  |
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship DERICKSON. In service 1944-1954. Pacific service |
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1945 |  |
Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS I. In service 1882 - 1921. |
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1946 |  |
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship BACHE. In service 1901-1927. |
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1947 |  |
Coast Survey Steamer BIBB. In service 1847-1873. Sketched by Xanthus Smith. Most of Civil War with South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. |
Port Royal Sound? 1862? |
1948 |  |
Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer BLAKE. In service 1874-1905. Conducted classic Gulf Stream studies under J. E. Pillsbury. Many innovations on this ship -- steel cable for deepsea dredging and Sigsbee Sounding Machine, Pillsbury current meter, and deepsea anchoring techniques. In: "Deep-Sea Sounding and Dredging", by Charles D. Sigsbee. Call Number GC75.S53 1880. |
Washington Navy Yard 1880? |
1949 |  |
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship DISCOVERER. In service 1922-1941. Pacific service |
1931? |
