Figure 39. — Old aquarium of the Fisheries Station restored ai'ter 

 the hurricane of 19hh» 



the office of the New England Banks Fishery Investigations (pre- 

 viously called North Atlantic Fishery Investigations) from Cam- 

 bridge to Woods Hole. A new vessel. Albatross III (fig. 40), was 

 available for the explorations of offshore fishing grounds. The 

 vessel was commissioned at ceremonies held at Boston Fish Pier 

 on March 19, 1948. Formerly named Harvard she was built in 

 1926 as a steam trawler and before being "sold" to the Fish and 

 Wildlife Service for $1 she was credited with catching and landing 

 about 35 million pounds of groundfish. When World War II broke 

 out, the Harvard was in a shipyard being converted into a research 

 vessel. She was immediately requisitioned by the U.S. Navy for 

 the Coast Guard, renamed Be lie font e , and returned to the Service 

 in 1944. The Bellefonte was laid up at Woods Hole in semi-opera- 

 tive condition until plans were made and funds allocated to recon- 

 vert her back to a fishery research vessel under the name Albatross 

 111. Due to insufficient funds she was operated only intermittently 



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