Ships We Have Known - Northeast Fisheries Science Center
A photo gallery of ships has graced the wall outside the Directorate Office at the Science Center in Woods Hole for approximately 40 years.
The ship photos in the gallery are organized by country in the following order: U.S., Canada, France, the former E. Germany, the former W. Germany, Japan, Poland and the former USSR.
The R/V Advance II, an oceanographic training and charter vessel of the Cape Fear Technical Institute. She served as a S...
The R/V Atlantic Twin was an 89-foot trawler with a catamaran hull, built in 1965. She served as a charter platform for ...
NOAA Ship David Starr Jordan docking at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution pier. Built for oceanographic and biolo...
The NOAA Ship Delaware II served the Center from 1968 until its decommissioning in 2012, providing 44 years of service t...
NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow is a fisheries survey vessel built to support the study and monitoring of marine fisheries an...
NOAA Ship Researcher, a 278-foot stern trawler later renamed the NOAA Ship Malcolm Baldrige, served as a Science Center ...
The R/V Seward Johnson was a 204-foot oceanographic and submersible support platform owned by the Harbor Branch Oceanogr...
NOAA Ship Whiting, a 163-foot ship designed and outfitted for hydrographic and bathymetric surveys involving nautical ch...
The Canadian R/V Harengus was a 84.5-foot wooden-hulled herring seiner built in 1946 and later converted to a side trawl...
The Canadian M/V Metacomet was a small fish-finding vessel. Chartered by the Center in 1956 and 1958, she was used to lo...
The Canadian deep submergence vehicle Pisces. Science Center collaboration with the Pisces in 1970 represents the first...
The Canadian M/V Theta was a charter research vessel originally built as a sealing vessel and later converted to a hydro...
French R/V Calypso. Owned by France’s explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the 42-meter wooden Calypso docked in Woods Hole i...
In 1962 the French R/V Thalassa docked in Woods Hole, providing an opportunity for scientists from France and the Scien...
The former East German R/V Eisbar, a herring trawler that worked with Center scientists on one cruise in 1979. The prima...
The former West German R/V Walther Herwig was a 273-foot fishery/research vessel designed as a stern trawler for use in ...
The former East German R/V Ernst Haeckel participated in four cooperative projects over a 2-year period (1975-1976). Cru...
The former East German R/V Gorlitz was a side trawler that participated in benthic habitat studies in 1963, bottom trawl...
The Japanese Suzuka Maru was a stern trawler provided by a private Japanese fishing company so that the Japanese could d...
The Polish M/T Admiral Arciszewski was a 90-meter stern trawler that participated in six joint cruises with the Science ...
Polish R/V Kanaryjka. The 75-meter freezer stern trawler participated in one cooperative mackerel survey in 1982. The ob...
Polish R/V Kunatka. The 75-meter freezer stern trawler participated in one cooperative mackerel survey in 1983. Objectiv...
The former USSR R/V Albatros, a side trawler, was the first Soviet vessel to visit Woods Hole. In 1967, the NOAA Ship Al...
The former USSR R/V Alferas. In 1970, the freezer trawler participated in a joint study with the NOAA Ship Albatross IV ...
The former USSR R/V Aliot, a freezer side trawler, participated in nine joint cruises during 1969, 1978, and 1979. Surve...
The former USSR R/V Atlant, a freezer fish trawler, participated in a 1981 survey to compare Marine Resources Monitoring...
The former USSR R/V Blesk. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the freezer side trawler took part in 11 joint cruises wit...
The former USSR R/V Boguslav. The Soviet side trawler, accompanied by the R/V Stvor, participated in a warm core ring st...
The former USSR R/V Ekliptika. The freezer side trawler participated with the Science Center in 1981 in a survey which d...
In 1980, the former USSR R/V Evrika participated in a survey of five cruise legs to collect Marine Resources Monitoring,...
The former USSR R/V Kvant, a freezer side trawler, worked jointly with the Science Center in 1970 and 1976. Cruise objec...
The former USSR R/V Khronometer. In 1974, the research trawler collected bottom trawl and hydrographic data. During thi...
The former USSR R/V Nogliki, a purse seiner which participated in two 1977 surveys. The focus of the first survey was t...
The former USSR R/V Prognoz. This side trawler participated in five cooperative cruises over three years, including an I...
The former USSR R/V Stvor was a hydrographic research ship which participated in a warm core ring study in the slope wat...
The former USSR R/V Viandra. In 1971 this side trawler participated in an International Commission for the Northwest Atl...
The former USSR R/V Yubileiniy. This Soviet purse seiner participated in Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment and Pre...
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