Hero with all four sails up at Paradise Harbour, Antarctica. c. 1969. Photo by Bob Dale
History
United States
Namesake
Hero
Operator
National Science Foundation
Launched
1968
Decommissioned
1984
Fate
Partially Sank in 2017
General characteristics
Type
Research vessel (RV)
Tonnage
300 GT
Length
125 ft (38 m)
Beam
30.33 ft (9.24 m)
Draft
12.5 ft (3.8 m)
Installed power
760 hp (570 kW)
Propulsion
Diesel / Sail
Sail plan
Ketch
Speed
11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Crew
10
RV Hero was a research vessel that operated in Antarctica for the National Science Foundation between 1968 and 1984. She was decommissioned in 1984 and partially sank in 2017 after a storm in Bay Center, Washington.
46°37′17″N 123°56′44″W / 46.621339°N 123.945491°W / 46.621339; -123.945491 RVHero was a research vessel that operated in Antarctica for the National Science...
(1923-2015) (Belgian-) American (captain of the American Antarctic research ship RVHero). The genus was circumscribed by Richard Lee Moe in Bot. Mar. vol.52 on...
the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Hugh B. Dakers, a cook in RVHero on her first Antarctic voyage to Palmer Station in 1968. List of Antarctic...
Master of the RVHero in 1972–73 and 1973–74. Lenie is believed to be first to navigate and carry out sounding of this passage, in the Hero in January and...
Antarctic Names for Malcolm J. Beaumont, an Electronics Technician in RVHero on her first Antarctic voyage, reaching nearby Palmer Station on Christmas...
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Sidney G. Hartshorne, Master of RVHero on her first Antarctic voyage to Palmer Station in 1968. List of Antarctic...
on Antarctic Names after Johannes N. Bielecki, an assistant engineer in RVHero on her first Antarctic voyage to Palmer Station in 1968. List of Antarctic...
reconnaissance survey in USCGC Burton Island, 1974–75, and Project Manager, RVHero – Palmer Station Research System, 1976. "Curran Bluff". Geographic Names...
RV Petrel, or R/V Petrel (IMO: 9268629, MMSI: 235102789), is a 76.45 m (250.8 ft) research vessel sailing under the UK flag and owned by the United States...
depletion studies, became known as the "Noxon cliff". In 1978, Noxon sailed on RVHero from Ushuaia, and quickly confirmed that a "cliff" in nitrogen dioxide...
December 25, 2020, Anthony Quinn Warner detonated a recreational vehicle (RV) bomb in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, United States, killing himself, injuring...
review: 'Islands of the Damned' by RV Burgin", The Dallas Morning News Sloan, Bill (2005). Brotherhood of Heroes: The Marines at Peleliu, 1944 – The...
Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Claude C. Tukey, Messman in R.V. Hero on her first voyage to Antarctica and nearby Palmer Station in 1968. List...
on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for George B. Trundy, Able Seaman in the R.V. Hero in her first voyage to Antarctica and nearby Palmer Station in 1968. List...
horse as the vehicle (vahana) of Rudra, the "Hero on horseback" that "should be indulgent" to the singer (RV. 2.33.1). Whereas post-Vedic texts such as...
Resistance Value (RV). All actions taken, even against inanimate objects, use that system. For example, investigators use AV and EV against a RV to determine...
RVs in Albuquerque through the DMV and finds an RV without a renewed registration. Hank tracks the RV down to the mother of Jesse's deceased friend Christian...
than the "family books" (Mandalas 2–7, dated as an old part of the RV) and RV 1 and RV 10 (dated as the latest portion of hymns composed shortly before...
RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater, formerly known as the Sleep Country Amphitheater, Amphitheater Northwest, and the Sunlight Supply Amphitheater (originally...
Dāśarājñá yuddhá) was first alluded to in the 7th Mandala of the Rigveda (RV) and took place between a king of the Bharatas named King Sudas versus a confederation...
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