NOAAS Miller Freeman (R 223)
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  Bureau of Commercial Fisheries
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| Name: | BCF Miller Freeman |
| Namesake: | Miller Freeman (1875-1955), American publisher and advocate for American fisheries and the use of scientific fact in managing fisheries |
| Builder: | American Shipbuilding Company, Lorain, Ohio |
| Cost: | $3,400,000 (USD) |
| Launched: | 2 April 1966 |
| Acquired: | June 1967 (delivery) |
| Commissioned: | 1967 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 July 1970 |
| Homeport: | Seattle, Washington |
| Identification: | Call sign WTDM |
| Fate: | Transferred to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 3 October 1970 |
 United States
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| Name: | NOAAS Miller Freeman (R 223) |
| Namesake: | Previous name retained |
| Acquired: | Transferred from Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 3 October 1970 |
| Recommissioned: | 1975 |
| Out of service: | October 2010 |
| Decommissioned: | 29 March 2013 |
| Homeport: | Newport, Oregon |
| Fate: | Sold 5 December 2013 |
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| Type: | Fisheries and oceanographic research ship |
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| Displacement: | 1,920 tons |
| Length: | 215 ft (66 m) |
| Beam: | 42 ft (13 m) |
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| Propulsion: | One General Motors 2,200-hp (1.64-mW) geared diesel engine, one four-bladed controllable-pitch propeller, one 400-hp (298-kW) Schottle lowerable omnidirectional bow thruster |
| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h) (cruising) |
| Range: | 12,582 nautical miles (23,302 km) |
| Endurance: | 31 days |
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| Complement: | 34 (7 NOAA Corps officers, 4 licensed engineers, and 23 other crew members), plus up to 11 scientists |
NOAAS Miller Freeman (R 223) was an American fisheries and oceanographic research vessel that was in commission in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) fleet from 1975 to 2013. Prior to her NOAA career, she was in commission in the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries from 1967 to 1970 as BCF Miller Freeman.
Miller Freeman was designed in 1965 to meet the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries' need for a large vessel for oceanographic research and the open-ocean investigation of fisheries. She was built for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service by the American Shipbuilding Company in Toledo, Ohio. She was launched on 2 April 1966 and delivered in June 1967, and she was commissioned into service into the Fish and Wildlife Service's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries as BCF Miller Freeman.
When completed in 1967, Miller Freeman was the largest research ship in the history of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and its ancestor organizations, and she remained one of the largest research trawlers in the United States throughout her career. Her stern-ramp configuration allowed her to conduct trawling operations in deep-sea waters.
Miller Freeman had two cranes with a maximum lifting capacity of 8,500 pounds (3,856 kg) and a third crane with a lifting capacity of 2,750 pounds (1,247 kg). She had three A-frames; one of them is a 29.5-foot (9-meter) trawl gantry and the other two are 14.5-foot (4.4-meter) Oceo A-frames. She also had twelve winches, one with a maximum safe working load of 40,000 pounds (18,144 kg), one with a maximum safe working load of 23,000 pounds (10,433 kg), two with maximum safe working loads of 22,000 pounds (9,979 kg), two with maximum safe working loads of 18,000 pounds (8,165 kg), one with a maximum safe working load of 3,550 pounds (1,610 kg), two with maximum safe working loads of 3,300 pounds (1,497 kg), and two with maximum safe working loads of 1,150 pounds (522 kg).
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