NOAAS Surveyor (S 132)
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Surveyor conducting helicopter operations in the Bering Sea
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| Name: | USC&GS Surveyor (OSS 32) |
| Namesake: | A surveyor is a member of the profession of surveying, which determines positions on the earth's surface |
| Builder: | National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, San Diego, California |
| Launched: | 25 April 1959 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. H. Arnold Karo |
| Commissioned: | 30 April 1960 |
| Homeport: | Seattle, Washington |
| Fate: | Transferred to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 3 October 1970 |
 United States
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| Name: | NOAAS Surveyor (S 132) |
| Namesake: | Previous name retained |
| Acquired: | Transferred from U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 3 October 1970 |
| Decommissioned: | 29 September 1995 |
| Homeport: | Seattle, Washington |
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| Nickname(s): | "Old Workhorse" |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Oceanographic survey ship |
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| Displacement: | 3,440 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 292 ft 2 in (89.05 m) |
| Beam: | 46 ft (14 m) |
| Draft: | 19 ft 5 in (5.92 m) |
| Installed power: | 3,200 shaft horsepower (2.4 megawatts) |
| Propulsion: | Two sets Laval geared steam turbines, two Combustion Engineering boilers, one shaft, 785 tons fuel |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h) (sustained) |
| Range: | 13,680 nautical miles (25,340 km) |
| Endurance: | 38 days |
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| Complement: | 92 (12 NOAA Corps officers, 6 civilian officers, 58 crew members, 16 scientists) |
| Aviation facilities: | Helicopter pad |
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NOAA Ship Surveyor (S 132) was an oceanographic survey ship in commission in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from 1970 until 1995. Prior to her NOAA career, she was in commission in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1960 to 1970 as USC&GS Surveyor (OSS 32). She was the second and last Coast and Geodetic Survey ship named Surveyor and has been the only NOAA ship thus far to bear the name.
Surveyor was built as an "ocean survey ship" (OSS) for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company in San Diego, California, and launched on 25 April 1959, sponsored by Mrs. H. Arnold Karo. She was the last steam-powered ship built for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the first to be equipped with a deep-water multi-beam echosounder. Her construction marked the beginning of a major effort to modernize the Coast and Geodetic Survey fleet and make it capable of conducting operations worldwide.
In addition to the deep-water echosounder, Surveyor had a shallow-water echosounder, a stabilized mapping sonar system, a Hydroplot data-processing system, a data-processing computer, seismic reflection profile processors, seismic reflection profile processors, and an extensive suite of navigation equipment, as well as a wet and dry oceanography laboratory, a gravimetric laboratory, and a photographic laboratory.
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