OCEANOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES 141 



In our 10-year program, of course, we are going to build 18 modem 

 oceanographic ships. 



Mr. Lennon. Will you excuse me, sir? 



When you refer to the 10-year program, are you alluding to the 

 program that is projected by the National Academy of Sciences Com- 

 mittee or the Navy's own program ? 



Admiral Hayward. The Navy's own TENOC program that I re- 

 ferred to and it runs from fiscal 1960 to 1968. 



The first ship to be built is this one that you see up there. These 

 ship are small. They will have a trial speed of 13 knots and an en- 

 durance of 12,000 miles. They have an overall length of 209 feet 

 and 1,370 tons is their displacement. 



Of course, they have their laboratories, wet and dry, aboard and 

 combined drafting room and study space. They will be equipped 

 with deep sea winch and boom over the stern capable of supporting 

 30,000 pounds. The cost of this ship is $3.7 million. This ship will 

 provide for a crew of 22, including officers, and a scientist comple- 

 ment of 15. It will be civilian manned by crews planned for by the 

 parent oceanographic institution. These are not large like the 

 U.S.S.R. ships have been. However, the smaller size that we are 

 building is preferable to the U.S. scientists' since it entails a much 

 lower operating cost crewwise. They get more scientists and they 

 actually want to run the ship with a minimum number of people. 



Also we have a larger research ship in this TENOC program which 

 runs between 2,000 and 3,000 tons and this will have 29 officers and can 

 carry a team" of 39 scientists. You will have a larger boom capacity. 



I have not any cost estimates but it would run in the neighborhood 

 of about $5 million. 



Now, this program of ours recommends that the three oceano- 

 graphic laboratories, Scripps, Woods Hole, and Lamont, each be 

 equipped with two of the small ones and one of the larger research 

 ships. 



It also recommended that the Hudson Laboratory get one small 

 one and one large ship, the University of Miami would get one small 

 one, Texas A. & M. would get one of the small ones and actually 

 the overall effort recommends the building of an average of two of 

 those a year from 1961 to 1966 and one of the larger ones per year 

 commencing in 1963 and continuing through 1966. 



Now, in addition to these there are three 80-foot boats and one 

 300-ton ship for which no design specifications have been drawn but 

 whose costs total about $11/2 million. 



The entire shipbuilding costs in this program come to $58,600,000 

 for an annual expenditure of around $7 million for shipbuilding. 



The program is modest and we are planning, of course, what I call 

 seed corn. Compared to the Russians we are actually getting many 

 more mobile research stations and can cover more areas for con- 

 siderably less lost. We think it makes sense to do it this way rather 

 than building fewer large ships, and the oceanographers and scien- 

 tific people who run the program agree with us. 



Mr. Lennon. There is one other question. 



You referred to the Committee representing the several Govern- 

 ment agencies who had the community of interest in this proposed 

 program. Since the Academy of Sciences report has been publicized 



