Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Vessel GERONIMO. This vessel operated out of
Galveston. In 1964 it was the first vessel to transmit
oceanographic data via the communications satellite Syncom II to a shore
installation.
Image ID: ship0341, NOAA's Fleet Then and Now - Sailing for Science Collection Photo Date: 1966 Ca. Credit: Archival Photograph by Mr. Steve Nicklas, NGS/RSD
