NMFS region 

 and vessel name 



Home port 



Parent group 



Length overall 



Vessel class 



HPT' Class 



Northwest region — Cont. 

 Pribilof Seattle, Wash. 



Southwest region 

 David Starr Jordan San Diego, Calif. 



Charles H. Gilbert Honolulu, Hawaii 

 Townaend Cromwell Honolulu, Hawaii 



Marine Mammal 222'10" 68.0 2587 



Resources 



Fishery-Oceanog- 171' 52.2 1883 



raphy Center, 



La Jolla 

 Hawaii Area Fishery 12211" 37.6 855 



Research Center 

 Hawaii Area Fishery 158'6" 48.4 1365 



Research Center 



C 

 B 



HPT (horsepower-tonnage) are official NMFS figures. 



Class A — Large ship 



Class B — Medium ship 



Class C — Small ship 



Class D — Large boat 



Table 2.— Summary of National Marine Fisheries Service 

 research fleet niodemization since 1962. 



Vessel 



Year 

 acquired 



Vessel 

 replaced 



Albatross IV 



Geronimo- 



George B. Kelez' . . . 

 Townsend Cronuvell 



Pribilop 



David Starr Jordan 



Undaunted' 



Miller Freeman 



Oregon II 



Delaware II 



1962 

 1963 

 1963 

 1963 

 1964 

 1965 

 1965 

 1967 

 1967 

 1968 



Albatross IIP 



Hugh M. Smith* 

 Penguin 

 Black Douglas 



Delaware'' 



' Decommissioned and sold 1958. 



= Converted from loaned Navy ATA. Returned to 

 Navy 1968. 



' Converted from surplus Navy AKL. 



' Transferred to American Samoa 1963. 



" On loan from Navy. 



• Converted from loaned Navy ATA. Returned to 

 Navy 1970. 



■ Decommissioned and sold 1969. 



for overag'e and obsolete vessels, while others 

 have provided entirely new seagoing capability 

 for their parent groups. Geronimo and Un- 

 daunted were acquired on loan from the Navy, 

 converted, and returned after NMFS no longer 

 required them because of changes in program 

 direction. 



VESSEL DESCRIPTION 



A questionnaire was prepared and sent to 

 all parent grouijs operating a vessel or vessels. 

 Descriptions based on the responses, as well as 

 a photograph of each NMFS vessel, are pre- 

 sented in the following pages. 



Table 3 gives additional technical data on 

 the newer vessel hull forms. 



Table 3. — Additional technical data on newer National Marine Fisheries Service vessel hull forms. 



Data 



Immersed volume (cu ft) . . . 

 Immersed area amidships 



(sq ft) 



Waterplane area (sq ft) .. 

 Wetted surface (sq ft) . . . . 

 Longitudinal prismatic 



coefficient 



Midship section coefficient . 



Waterline coefficient 



Vertical prismatic coefficient 



Block coefficient 



Froude number (at max. 



speed) 



Albatross IV 



Delaware II 



Townsend 

 Cromwell 



David Starr 

 Jordan 



Miller 

 Freeman 



Oregon II 



37,100 



23.900 



22,295 



30,860 



62,475 



31,500 



