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&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:USC%26GS_Discoverer_(1964).jpg) USC&GS Discoverer (OSS 02) in Alaskan waters sometime between 1967 and 1970.
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| History | |
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| Name | USC&GS Discoverer (OSS 02) |
| Namesake | A discoverer, a person who engages in discovery, the act of detecting and learning something |
| Builder | Aerojet General Shipyards, Jacksonville, Florida |
| Laid down | 10 September 1963 |
| Launched | 29 October 1964 |
| Completed | 1966 |
| Commissioned | 29 April 1967 |
| Homeport | Miami, Florida |
| Fate | Transferred to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 3 October 1970 |
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| Name | NOAAS Discoverer (R 102) |
| Namesake | Previous name retained |
| Acquired | Transferred from U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 3&bsp;October 1970 |
| Decommissioned | 16 August 1996 |
| Homeport | Miami, Florida; later Seattle, Washington |
| Identification | IMO number: 6600814 |
| Fate | Scrapped 2010 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Oceanographer-class oceanographic research ship |
| Tonnage | |
| Displacement | 4,033 tons (full load) |
| Length | 92.4 m (303 ft 2 in) |
| Beam | 15.8 m (51 ft 10 in) |
| Draft | 6.0 m (19 ft 8 in) |
| Installed power | 5,000 shp (3,700 kW) |
| Propulsion | Diesel-electric: Two Westinghouse 1150 diesel generator sets, two Westinghouse electric motors, two screws; 400 hp (300 kW) bow thruster; 937 tons fuel |
| Speed | 15.8 knots (29.3 km/h) (sustained) |
| Range | 12,250 nmi (22,690 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Endurance | 34 days |
| Complement | 79 (13 NOAA Corps officers, six licensed civilian officers, 60 crewmen) plus up to 24 scientists |
| Sensors and processing systems | One weather radar, two navigational radars; additional sensors installed before 1986 reactivation (see text) |
| Notes | 1.2 MW electrical power |
NOAAS Discoverer (R 102), originally USC&GS Discoverer (OSS 02), was an American Oceanographer-class oceanographic research vessel in service in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1966 to 1970 and in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from 1970 to 1996. She was the second Coast and Geodetic Survey ship and first NOAA ship to bear the name Discoverer.