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:

    “Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.”
    —Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)

    “A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.”
    —Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

    “And when we can with Meeter safe,
    We’ll call him so, if not plain Ralph,
    For Rhime the Rudder is of Verses,
    With which like Ships they steer their courses.”
    —Samuel Butler (1612–1680)