Scripps Institution of Oceanography - Research Vessels

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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