Sister ships NOAAS Rude (S 590) and NOAAS Heck (S 591)
History
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Name
USC&GS Heck (ASV 91)
Namesake
Captain Nicholas Heck (1882-1953), a U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey officer
Builder
Jackobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay, New York
Launched
1 November 1966
Acquired
11 March 1967 (delivery)
Commissioned
29 March 1967
Fate
Transferred to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 3 October 1970
NOAA
Name
NOAAS Heck (S 591)
Namesake
Previous name retained
Acquired
Transferred from U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 3 October 1970
Decommissioned
25 October 1995
Stricken
1996
Identification
IMO number: 6727870
Honors and awards
Department of Commerce Silver Medal 1978
Fate
Sold 2001
General characteristics
Type
Rude-class hydrographic Survey ship S1-MT-71a
Tonnage
150 gross register tons (domestic tonnage)
Displacement
220 long tons (220 t) (ITC tons)
Length
90 ft (27 m)
Beam
22 ft (6.7 m) (molded)
Draft
7.2 ft (2.2 m)
Installed power
850 shaft horsepower (630 kilowatts)
Propulsion
Two Cummins 425-horsepower (317 kW) geared diesel engines, 2 shafts, 3,900 U.S. gallons (15,000 L) fuel
Speed
10 knots (cruising)
Range
1,000 nautical miles (1,850 kilometers)
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 Heck (S 591) was a Rude-class hydrographic survey ship in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from 1970 to 1995. Prior to her NOAA service, she was in commission from 1967 to 1970 in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as USC&GS Heck (ASV 91).
1970, Heck became part of the NOAA fleet as NOAASHeck (S 591). Heck and her sister ship USC&GS Rude (ASV 90), later NOAAS Rude (S 590), were designed to...
States civil rights case Parnall Heck, a 1930s British four-seat cabin monoplane NOAASHeck (S 591), originally USC&GS Heck, a survey ship A minced oath for...
acquired Rude and a sister ship of identical design, USC&GS Heck (ASV 91), later NOAASHeck (S 591), to conduct wire-drag survey operations together, replacing...
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1942 to 1967, and USC&GS Rude (ASV 90) (later NOAAS Rude (S 590)) and USC&GS Heck (ASV 91) (later NOAASHeck (S 591)) worked together on wire-drag operations...
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benzimidazoline-2-ylidene palladium(II) complex and investigations of its Heck-type catalytic activity". Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 690 (16):...
history.noaa.gov "A Letter From the Front" history.noaa.gov "The First Year" NOAA History: Profiles in Time – C&GS Biographies: Nicholas Hunter Heck celebrating200years...
1941–1942) Hassler (in service 1871–1895) USC&GS Heck (ASV 91) (in service 1967–1970, then with NOAA 1970–1995) USC&GS Helianthus (in service 1919–1939)...
September 8 2003)"". Trimborn 2008, pp. 206–208. Taylor 2007. Connolly 2002. Heck-Rabi 1984, p. 126. BBC News 2005. Hinton 2000, p. 135. Hinton 2000, p. 136...
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Conversely, three Republican U.S. Representatives from Nevada, Mark Amodei, Joe Heck, and Cresent Hardy, condemned the new monument, and Republican U.S. Representative...
Mark E.; Poore, Alistair G. B.; Campbell, Alexandra H.; Ballesteros, Enric; Heck, Kenneth L.; Booth, David J.; Coleman, Melinda A.; Feary, David A.; Figueira...
Denali [6,190 m or 20,320 ft] or Aconcagua [6,960 m or 22,834 ft] and think, 'Heck, I feel great up here, I'm going to try Everest.' But it's not like that...
NIST SP 800-131, June 2010. Lorenzo, Joseph (September 24, 2013). "What the heck is going on with NIST's cryptographic standard, SHA-3? | Center for Democracy...
Global Information
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
NOAA
Department of Commerce Silver Medal 1978