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History
United States
Name
USS Eltanin
Namesake
A star in the constellation Draco
Builder
Avondale Marine Ways, Inc., Avondale, Louisiana
Laid down
date unknown as type (C1-ME2-13a) hull
Launched
16 January 1957
Acquired
by the U.S. Navy, October 1957
In service
October 1957 by MSTS as USNS Eltanin (T-AK-270)
Out of service
date unknown
Reclassified
Oceanographic Research Vessel (T-AGOR-8), 23 August 1962
Stricken
not known
Fate
transferred to Argentina in 1974
History
Argentina
Name
ARA Islas Orcadas
Acquired
1974
Fate
Scrapped, 1979
General characteristics
Type
cargo ship (icebreaker)
Tonnage
1,850 tons
Displacement
3,886 tons
Length
266'
Beam
52'
Draft
18'
Propulsion
diesel electric, two shafts, 3,200hp
Speed
13 knots
Complement
18 civilians, 15 scientific party, 6 Navy
Armament
none indicated
USNS Eltanin (T-AK-270/T-AGOR-8) was an Eltanin-class cargo ship with an ice-breaking hull acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1957 and then operated by the Navy in a non-commissioned status, named after Eltanin, a star in the constellation Draco. Her designation was changed to that of an oceanographic research ship in 1962 when she operated in Antarctic waters.
USNSEltanin (T-AK-270/T-AGOR-8) was an Eltanin-class cargo ship with an ice-breaking hull acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1957 and then operated by the...
-105.050000 The Eltanin Antenna is an object photographed on the sea floor by the Antarctic oceanographic research ship USNSEltanin in 1964, while photographing...
93 cm/year (3.12 in/year). It was named after the oceanographic ship USNSEltanin. The affected zone of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge is about 800 km (500 mi)...
Duyfken Rupes -21.4 131.8 Duyfken, ship of Willem Janszoon Eltanin Rupes -74.8 269.2 USNSEltanin, American icebreaker and Antarctic research vessel Endeavour...
for two months in Antarctic waters aboard the NSF's research vessel, USNSEltanin. The National Science Foundation eventually allowed her to winter over...
Comodoro Lasserre-class (ex Colony-class, US-built) Islas Orcadas-class (ex Eltanin-class, US-built) Puerto Deseado-class oceanographic ship (Argentine-built)...
Flabelligeridae by Olga Hartman in her "Polychaetous Annelids Collected by the USNSEltanin and Staten Island Cruises, Chiefly from Antarctic Seas" 1971: Genus transferred...
Antarctic Bottom Water and Weddell Sea bottom water. USNS Robert D. Conrad, 1962–1989 USNSEltanin, 1962–1974 RV Maurice Ewing, 1988–2005 RV Marcus G....
USS Conger (SS-477) (23 August - 5 October 1947) RV Vema (1953-1981) USNS Robert D. Conrad (1962-1989) USNSEltanin (1962-1974) RV Maurice Ewing (1988-2005) RV Marcus Langseth...
at McMurdo Station in the 1964–65 season, a USARP Representative on USNSEltanin Cruise 34 in 1968, staff of the National Science Foundation (NSF) International...
She sailed as a scientist for a research voyage on the research vessel USNSEltanin. This US research vessel conducted a total of 52 Antarctic research cruises...
McMurdo Station in 1974. She worked on several Antarctic cruises in USNSEltanin between 1962 and 1972. 77°15′S 162°29′E / 77.250°S 162.483°E / -77...
was built as a small ice-strengthened, double hull, cargo ship of the Eltanin class on a Maritime Administration type (C1-ME2-13a) hull, by Avondale...
a study of deep sea jellyfish in the Southern Ocean performed by the USNSEltanin, the coronates Periphylla periphylla, Atolla wyvillei and Atolla chuni...
at Stanford University, who outfitted the biology laboratories on the USNSEltanin and at McMurdo Station, where he worked five summer seasons from 1958–64...
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