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ship or to sail off the wind. 



Hold spaces should be located and be of such construction that they 

 can be useful with scientific work such as being of use for a center 

 well or for a large fish tank. 



Provision should be made to light most of the decks at night without 

 interfering with the helmsman. 



Provison should be made for easily rigging awnings over portion of 

 of the deck. 



The ice box and deep freeze spaces should be particularly well built 

 and insulated to permit extended periods of complete shut-down. 

 A pair of open-ended vertical 24 inch pipes should extend through the 

 ship from the main deck to alongside the keel to permit rapid instal- 

 lation and accessibility of equipment such as sonar. 

 There should be a minimum of normally used levels on the ship. 

 There should also be a minimum of half-levels which involve climb- 

 bing. 



The bow and stern should both be as full on deck as practical to per- 

 mit easy working at the extremities of the ship and to keep the deck 

 area large. 



It is very desirable for the ship to have a straightforward, open plan 

 and appearance. This is to improve communications, the moving of 

 equipment, and to reduce upkeep. 



Have one of the small boats a small research vessel such as a 38 foot 

 buoy boat equipped with radio, echo-sounder, etc. 

 About half of the laboratory space should be divided so as to permit 

 small electronic, hydrographic, chemical and biological laboratories 

 and office facilities which should be maintained aboard the vessel at 

 all times. The remainder of the laboratory space should be reason- 

 ably open and versatile enough so that it can be arranged to suit the 

 principal requirements of each trip. 



The laboratories should have several outlets through ports for elec- 

 tric cables to go outside. One on each side should be at least 6 

 inches in diameter. Two 1 inch empty conduits should be carried 

 from the main laboratory to both the forward and aft deck spaces. 

 These runways will be for specialized instrument wires. Multiple 

 conductor cables should be installed between junction boxes near 

 scientific spaces. 



In summary I would say that in designing a marine research vessel we 

 have three goals: 



One is fairly routine and consists of incorporating as many known de- 

 sirable features as one can have without cluttering up the ship. 

 The second is to build one which can be operated at a reasonable cost. 

 The real design challange is to have it maneuverable, seaworthy and 

 able to operate and do research in a higher sea state than any previous 

 vessel of the same size, either civilian or nnilitary. 



APPENDIX: AllynC. Vine* 



Fortunately, discussion and design on a research vessel did not stop 

 after the Rancho Sante Fe synnposiumi and the following pages represent an ef- 

 fort to summarize work done during the fourteen months following the symposi- 



-Editorial Note: Because of the interest and importance of Oceanographic 

 vessels the editors asked Mr. Vine to sumnmarize progress since the symposium. 

 This he kindly did. 



