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NOAAS Rude (S 590)
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  U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
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| Name: | USC&GS Rude (ASV 90) |
| Namesake: | Captain Gilbert T. Rude (1881-1962), a U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey officer |
| Builder: | Jackobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay, New York |
| Launched: | 17 August 1966 |
| Completed: | December 1966 |
| Commissioned: | 29 March 1967 |
| Fate: | Transferred to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 3 October 1970 |
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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| Name: | NOAAS Rude (S 590) |
| Namesake: | Previous name retained |
| Acquired: | Transferred from U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 3 October 1970 |
| Decommissioned: | 25 March 2008 |
| Identification: | IMO number: 6728185 |
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| Status: | Inactive in NOAA Atlantic Fleet |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Rude-class hydrographic survey ship |
| Tonnage: | 150 gross register tons (domestic tonnage) |
| Displacement: | 220 tons (ITC tons) |
| Length: | 90 ft (27 m) |
| Beam: | 22 ft (6.7 m) (moulded) |
| Draft: | 7.2 ft (2.2 m) |
| Installed power: | 850 shp (0.63 MW) |
| Propulsion: | Two Cummins 425 hp (0.317 MW) geared diesel engines, 2 shafts, 3,900 US gallons (15,000 L) fuel |
| Speed: | 10 knots (19 km/h) (cruising) |
| Range: | 1,000 nautical miles (1,900 km) |
| Endurance: | 5 days |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
One launch |
| Complement: | 11 (4 NOAA Corps officers, 1 licensed engineer, and 6 other crew members) |
| Notes: | 120 kilowatts electrical power |
NOAAS Rude (S 590) is an American Rude-class hydrographic survey ship that was in commission in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from 1970 to 2008. Prior to her NOAA career, she was in commission in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1967 to 1970 as USC&GS Rude (ASV 90).
Rude is named for Gilbert T. Rude, former Chief of the Division of Coastal Surveys of the Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Rude (pronounced "Rudy") was built as an "auxiliary survey vessel" (ASV) for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey at the Jackobson Shipyard in Oyster Bay, New York. She was launched on 17 August 1966 and commissioned into Coast and Geodetic Survey service on 29 March 1967 as USC&GS Rude (ASV 90). When the Coast and Geodetic Survey merged with other United States Government organizations to form NOAA on 3 October 1970, she became a part of the NOAA fleet as NOAAS Rude (S 590).
The Coast and Geodetic Survey acquired Rude and a sister ship of identical design, USC&GS Heck (ASV 91), later NOAAS Heck (S 591) to conduct wire-drag survey operations together, replacing the survey ships USC&GS Hilgard (ASV 82) and USC&GS Wainwright (ASV 83) in that role. Like Hilgard and Wainright before them, Rude and Heck worked together under a single command conducting wire drag surveys, clearing large swaths between them with a submerged wire.
In 1978, Rude and Heck came to the assistance of the burning research vessel Midnight Sun, rescuing Midnight Sun's crew and scientists and saving the vessel from total loss. Rude's crew took aboard all 20 of Midnight Sun's crew members and scientists, who were afloat in life rafts near Midnight Sun, administered first aid to them, and transported them to shore. Heck's crew, meanwhile, fought the fire aboard Midnight Sun for 20 consecutive hours and saved Midnight Sun from sinking. For their efforts in saving Midnight Sun and her crew, the crews of Rude and Heck received the Department of Commerce Silver Medal in 1978.
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