NOAAS Oregon

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NOAAS Oregon II (R 332)
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NOAAS Oregon (R 551)
History
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
NameUS FWS Oregon (FSW 1600)
NamesakeOregon
Builder
Launched1946
Acquired1949
Homeport
FateTransferred to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 3 October 1970
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NameNOAAS Oregon (FRV 51)
NamesakePrevious name retained
AcquiredTransferred from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 3 October 1970
Decommissioned1980
ReclassifiedFrom "fisheries research vessel" (FRV 51) to "research ship" (R 551)
HomeportKodiak, Alaska
Identification
FateSold 20 October 1980; extant 2014
NotesFormally incorporated into NOAA fleet in 1973
General characteristics
Type
research ship
Tonnage219 GT
Length100 ft (30 m)
Beam26 ft (7.9 m)
Draft14 ft (4.3 m)
PropulsionEnterprise engine, 600 
kW
)
Speed9 knots (17 km/h) (average)
Range4,800 nmi (8,900 km)

NOAAS Oregon (R 551), previously NOAAS Oregon (FRV 51), was an American fisheries research vessel in commission in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) fleet from 1970 to 1980. Prior to her NOAA career, she operated under the United States Fish and Wildlife Service from 1949 to 1970 as US FWS Oregon (FWS 1600).

Construction

Hoping to find a way of overcoming meat

fitting out.[1]

Characteristics and capabilities

draggers.[1] Each of the boats cost approximately US$250,000 to build.[1]

Service history

Early career

After Astoria Marine Construction completed the boats, the PEC leased them from the RFC for US$50,000 per year and 55% percent of whatever profit they made, and took operational control of them.

fishing gear, and she reported outstanding results during her voyage.[1]

Fish and Wildlife Service

US FWS Oregon (FWS 1600) in service with the Fish and Wildlife Service

In 1949, the Fish and Wildlife Service – an element of the

navigation aid during her cruise, becoming the first FWS vessel to use LORAN while assessing fishing conditions.[1] Later in 1949, she moved to the waters off Southeast Alaska, again locating schools of tuna and reporting their positions to commercial fishermen operating in the area.[1]

On 8 December 1949, Oregon departed Seattle for a 27-day voyage to her new

bottomfish.[1] Her first cruise from Pascagoula began in April 1950, when she set out in search of commercially exploitable populations of shrimp, red snapper, tuna, menhaden, and shark, based on a recommendation by the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission.[1]

In 1956, the Fish and Wildlife Service was renamed the

silverside, shrimp, scarlet prawns, and lobsterettes, providing the United Nations personnel on board with knowledge of the fishery resources off the Lesser Antilles and experience in the use of fishing gear and techniques that would help in the future exploitation of fisheries in the Caribbean.[1] When Oregon's newly built replacement, Oregon II, joined the FWS fleet in August 1967 with her home port at Pascagoula, Oregon′s home port shifted to St. Simons Island, Georgia, from which she operated for another two years.[1]

In 1969, Oregon returned to Seattle, where she underwent an extensive renovation.[1] With it complete, she moved to her new base at the EF&GR laboratory at Juneau, Alaska, replacing the BCF vessel US FWS John R. Manning. From Juneau, she conducted cruises to test new fishing gear designs and explore the eastern Bering Sea and lower Bristol Bay for commercially useful bottomfish, shrimp, and crab populations.[1] In 1970, she and the laboratory both moved to Kodiak, Alaska.[1]

NOAA

NOAAS Oregon (FRV 51) at Seattle, Washington

On 3 October 1970, a major reorganization occurred which formed the

NOAA fleet. At first, the major ships that were to constitute the new fleet reported to separate entities, with former Coast and Geodetic Survey ships subordinate to the National Ocean Survey (the Coast and Geodetic Survey's successor organization within NOAA), while former Bureau of Commercial Fisheries ships like Oregon reported to the Bureau's successor within NOAA, the National Marine Fisheries Service. During 1972 and 1973, however, the ships of the National Ocean Survey and National Marine Fisheries Service, as well as those of the Environmental Research Laboratories, integrated to form a consolidated and unified NOAA fleet, operated by the National Ocean Survey's Office of Fleet Operations.[3] Oregon herself officially became part of the NOAA fleet in 1973, originally designated NOAAS Oregon (FRV 51) and later redesignated NOAAS Oregon (R 551).[1]

From her transfer to Kodiak in 1970 until 1975, Oregon conducted annual offshore surveys of the Alaskan

decommissioned Oregon in 1980.[1]

Later career

On 20 October 1980, NOAA transferred Oregon to the

State of South Carolina′s Department of Wildlife and Marine Resources.[1] In the late 1980s, that department sold her into private ownership for $6,000.[1] In April 1991, Jon Franklin purchased her in South Carolina and completely overhauled her there, restoring her to her original configuration.[1] In February 1992, he departed South Carolina aboard Oregon and arrived in the Pacific Northwest after a six-week voyage. Franklin still owned and operated Oregon as of early 2014, and his company, Oregon Seafoods of Lopez Island, Washington, has used her for tuna fishing in the South Pacific off Fiji over the winter of 1997–1998, albacore fishing in the North Pacific off Washington in the autumn of 2001, and bait-fishing and trolling for herring and salmon off Alaska.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah Anonymous, "AFSC Historical Corner: Oregon, RFC Exploratory Fishing Fleet Vessel," noaa.gov, undated Retrieved August 22, 2018
  2. ^ a b Guinan, John A., and Ralph E. Curtis, "A Century Of Conservation," noaa.gov, April 1971 Retrieved August 22, 2018
  3. ^ noaa.gov AFSC Historical Corner - Timeline of Significant Events Retrieved August 23, 2018
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