RV Atlantis (AGOR-25)
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 United States
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| Name: | Atlantis |
| Owner: | leased to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute |
| Builder: | Halter Marine Inc., Gulfport, Mississippi |
| Laid down: | 16 August 1994 |
| Launched: | 1 February 1996 |
| Acquired: | by the U.S. Navy, 25 February 1998, as R/V Atlantis (T-AGOR-25) |
| In service: | February 1998 by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute under charter for the Office of Naval Research |
| Refit: | in 1997, as a support ship for the U.S. Navy Deep Submergence Vehicle Alvin |
| Notes: | currently in service |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Thomas G. Thompson-class oceanographic research ship |
| Length: | 273.2 ft. 9 in. (83.2 m) |
| Beam: | 52.5 ft. (16 m) |
| Draft: | 19 feet (5.8 m) |
| Installed power: | Three 715 kw 600 VAC |
| Propulsion: | Diesel-electric, azimuthing stern thrusters, Bow Thruster: Azimuthing jet 1,180 SHP |
| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h) (12.4 mph) |
| Range: | 17,280 NM |
| Endurance: | 60 days |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
two rigid-hull inflatable rescue/work boats |
| Capacity: | Fuel Capacity: 267,540 gallons |
| Complement: | 22 Civilian Mariners; 24 Scientists; 12 Deep Submergence Operations Group (Alvin); 2 SSSG Techs. |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
As installed on Atlantis, the SeaBeam 2100/12 system consists of underhull projectors and diver-replaceable hydrophones, a single 19" electronics rack, an operator's workstation and peripherals. |
R/V Atlantis is an oceanographic research vessel operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) fleet. She is the host vessel of DSV Alvin. She is named for the first research vessel operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, R/V Atlantis for which the Space Shuttle Atlantis is also named.
Atlantis was built by Halter Marine Inc., Gulfport, Mississippi. She was laid down in August 1994 and launched in February 1996. She was delivered to the U.S. Navy on 25 February 1998, as R/V Atlantis (T-AGOR-25) a Thomas G. Thompson-class oceanographic research ship.
The Atlantis and three other research ships were all built to the same basic design. The three sister ships are R/V Thomas G. Thompson (UW), R/V Roger Revelle (Scripps) and NOAAS Ronald H. Brown (NOAA).
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