Research Vessels
Scripps owns and operates several research vessels and platforms:
- R/P FLIP
- R/V Roger Revelle
- R/V Melville
- R/V New Horizon
- R/V Robert Gordon Sproul
- AGOR-28 (Operational 2015)
- Previous vessels larger than 50 ft (15 m)
- 1906 - R/V Loma
- 1907 - 1917 R/V Alexander Agassiz
- 1918 - 1918 R/V Ellen Browning
- 1925 - 1936 R/V Scripps
- 1937 - 1955 R/V E. W. Scripps
- 1955 - 1965 R/V Stranger (Operated as USS Jasper from 1941 to 1947 for the UC Division of War Research)
- 1947 - 1956 R/V Crest
- 1947 - 1969 R/V Horizon
- 1948 - 1965 R/V Paolina-T
- 1951 - 1965 R/V Spencer F.Baird
- 1955 - 1969 T-441
- 1956 - 1962 R/V Orca
- 1959 - 1963 R/V Hugh M. Smith
- 1959 - 1970 R/V Argo (Official Navy name was Snatch)
- 1962 - 1976 R/V Alexander Agassiz
- 1962–present R/P FLIP
- 1962 - 1974 R/V Oconostota (The Oconostota was known as "The Rolling O" because of its unpleasant motion.)
- 1965 - 1980 R/V Alpha Helix (Transferred to University of Alaska, Fairbanks in 1980 (UAF sold vessel in 2007 to Stabbert Maritime)
- 1965 - ???? R/V Ellen B. Scripps
- 1966 - 1992 R/V Thomas Washington (Transferred to Chile and renamed Vidal Gormaz in 1992 (still operating in 2010)
- 1969–present R/V Melville (AGOR-14)
- 1973 - ???? R/V Gianna
- 1973 - ???? R/V Dolphin (Dolphin is now at the San Diego Maritime Museum)
- 1978–present R/V New Horizon
- 1984–present R/V Robert Gordon Sproul
- 1995–present R/V Roger Revelle
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