| |
 United States Navy | |
|---|---|
| Name | USS YP-635 |
| Builder | Ballard Marine Railway Company, Seattle, Washington |
| Completed | 1945 |
| Commissioned | May 1945 |
| Stricken | 1963 |
| Honors and awards | |
| Fate |
|
 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | |
| Name | US FWS Hugh M. Smith |
| Namesake | Hugh McCormick Smith (1865–1941), U.S. Commissioner of Fisheries (1913–1922) |
| Acquired | November 1948 |
| Commissioned | 1949 |
| Decommissioned | June 1959 |
| Homeport |
|
| Fate | Transferred to U.S. Navy 1963 |
| Notes | Leased to Scripps Institution of Oceanography 23 June 1959–4 November 1963 |
 United States | |
| Name | MV Hugh M. Smith |
| Namesake | Previous name retained |
| Operator | Government of American Samoa |
| Homeport | American Samoa |
| Fate | Transferred to Philippine Merchant Marine Academy 1965 |
 Philippines | |
| Name | RPLS Habagat ("South Wind") |
| Namesake | Habagat, the southwest monsoon[1] |
| Operator | Philippine Merchant Marine Academy |
| Acquired | 1965 |
| Fate | Capsized at pier in storm, late 1970s |
| General characteristics (as U.S. Navy vessel) | |
| Type | Patrol vessel |
| Displacement | 403 tons |
| Length | 117 ft (36 m) |
| General characteristics (as FWS fisheries research vessel) | |
| Type | Fisheries research ship |
| Tonnage | 550 GRT |
| Length | 128 ft (39 m) |
| Beam | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Draft | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Installed power | 2 x 125-kW diesel–electric generators |
| Propulsion | 560 hp (420 kW) diesel engine |
| General characteristics (as Scripps Institution research vessel) | |
| Type | Research ship |
| Length | 128 ft (39 m) |
| Beam | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Draft | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
| Speed | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) (cruising) |
| Range | 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) |
| Endurance | 45 days |
| Crew | 14, plus up to 8 embarked scientists |
US FWS Hugh M. Smith was an American fisheries science research vessel in commission from 1949 to 1959 in the fleet of the United States Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service. She was among the first U.S. fisheries science vessels to explore the central Pacific Ocean in search of commercially valuable populations of fish.
Prior to her time in the Fish and Wildlife Service, the vessel was in commission in the United States Navy as the patrol vessel USS YP-635. After her Fish and Wildlife Service career ended, she was leased to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1959 to 1963, then operated in American Samoa during the mid-1960s, and finally served the Philippine Merchant Marine Academy as the laboratory training ship Habagat from 1965 until she capsized in a storm in the late 1970s.