U.S. National Geodetic Survey - Ships

Ships

See also category: Ships of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey

A partial list of the Survey's ships:

  • USC&GS A. D. Bache (1871)
  • USC&GS A. D. Bache (1901)
  • USC&GS Drift
  • Hassler
  • USC&GS Thomas R. Gedney
  • USC&GS George S. Blake (Famous as pioneer ship in deep ocean survey and oceanography)
  • USC&GS Guide (1918)
  • USC&GS Guide (1929)
  • USC&GS Yukon (1873)
  • USC&GS Carlile P. Patterson
  • USC&GS Yukon (1898)
  • USC&GS Oceanographer
  • USC&GS Pathfinder (1899-1941)
  • USC&GS Pathfinder
  • USC&GS Pioneer (1918), in service 1922–1941
  • USC&GS Pioneer (1929), in service 1941–1942
  • USC&GS Pioneer (OSS 31), in service 1946–1966
  • USC&GS Silliman
  • USC&GS Barataria (1867)

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Famous quotes containing the word ships:

    “The ships we sank with women and children aboard. The lifeboats we shelled. Mmm ... we were good at that.”
    —Emeric Pressburger (1902–1988)

    “I saw three ships come sailing by,
    Come sailing by, come sailing by,
    I saw three ships come sailing by,
    On Christmas Day in the morning.”
    —Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .

    Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)

    “And when we can with Meeter safe,
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    For Rhime the Rudder is of Verses,
    With which like Ships they steer their courses.”
    —Samuel Butler (1612–1680)