Research vessels from USA
170 of 566 vessels shown
Alliance
Saint Ignace, Michigan
ARCTICUS
Cheboygan
Atlantis
Town of St. George
Oceanography
Auk
Scituate
Bowditch
East Booth Bay
Brooks McCall
Brazoria County, Texas
Cosmo
USA
David Packard
Monterey County, California
Defender
Dutch Harbor
Donald W. Pritchard
Stony Brook
Near shore sampling
Gloria Michelle
Dukes County, Massachusetts
Gulf Challenger
New Castle
Oceanography
Gulf Surveyor
New Castle
Kaho
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Long term fish stock evaluation and restoration program
Kaunana
Honolulu
Ken Barbor
Gulfport, Mississippi
Kittiwake
Friday Harbor
Kiyi
Seattle, Washington
Fish population and habitat research, limnological research
Magister
Hammond, Oregon
Manta
Galveston
Marcus G Langseth
Palisades
Miss Emma Mccall
Coronado, California
Gulf of Mexico and US East Coast
Neil Armstrong
Woods Hole
Oregon II
Pascagoula, Mississippi
Fisheries and Living Marine Resources Studies
Oscar Dyson
Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska
Fisheries Survey and Oceanography
Oscar Elton Sette
Honolulu
Fisheries Surveys, Oceanography, Marine Mammal and Coral reef Research
Pisces
Sussex County, Delaware
Point Sur
Houma, Louisiana
Oceanography
R/V Gilbert R. Mason
Gulfport
Rachel Carson
Monterey County, California
Marine biology, university teaching
Rachel Carson
Moss Landing
Rainier
Marin County, California
Hydrography Survey
Reuben Lasker
Coronado, California
Robert Gordon Sproul
San Diego
Oceanography
Roger Revelle
San Diego, California
Oceanography
Ronald H. Brown
Pascagoula, Mississippi
Oceanographic and Atmospheric research
Sally Ride
Punta Arenas, Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region
Searcher
USA
Seawolf
Stony Brook
coastal Large-scale oceanographic sampling and trawling
Shana Rae
Santa Cruz, California
resource management, instrument & vehicle deployment
Shearwater
Santa Barbara, California
Sikuliaq
Alaska
Soliton
USA
Storm Petrel
La Push
Thomas G. Thompson
Sånta Rita-Sumai Municipality, Guam
Oceanography
Thomas Jefferson
Hampton, Virginia
Hydrographic Surveys, Nautical Charting
Tiglax
Homer, Alaska
Wildlife Research Support Vessel, Seabird surveys, Oceanographic studies, Marine mammal studies Fish
Tioga
Woods Hole
Coastal Oceanography
Tommy Munro
Ocean Springs
trawling surveys, long-lining, deployment and recovery of arrays, structures, buoys and moorings, ca
Western Flyer
St Petersburg
Yellowfin
Long Beach, California
Oceanography
Acadiana
Cocodrie
Oceanography Fisheries
Agassiz
Houghton
Alabama Discovery
Dauphin Island
Alvin (DSV)
Woods Hole
ANGARI
West Palm Beach
Annika Marie
Prudhoe Bay
General oceanography, geophysics, pipeline surveys
Apalachee
St. Teresa
Arabella
Tuckerton
Long-Term Ecosystem Observatory on the continental shelf
Argo
Dunkirk
Fish Stock assessments
Argo II (ROV)
Woods Hole
Atlantic Explorer
St. George’s
Bay Eagle
Gloucester Point
estuarine and tributary research
Beagle (ROV)
Humboldt Bay
Bell M Shimada
Newport, Oregon
Biolab
Put-in-Bay
trap-net style vessel for open lake sampling and trawling
Blue Heron
Hillsborough County, Florida
Bowditch
Fernandina Beach, Florida
Bruce C. Heezen (USNS)
Norfolk
acoustical, biological, physical and geophysical surveys
Caleta
Tuckerton
estuarine research
Cape Fear
Wilmington
Scientific and educational cruises
Cape Hatteras
Wilmington
Oceanography
Capricorn
Morehead City
Channel Cat
Harrison Township
Great Lakes fisheries research
COASTAL EXPLORER
Georgetown
Connecticut
Groton
Oceanography
Coral Sea
Arcata
Research & Educational Research
Coregonus
Sturgeon Bay
Corwith Cramer
Woods Hole
Education, Sailing School
D. J. Angus
Grand Haven
Derek M. Baylis
San Francisco, California
Research
Discoverer
Newport
DSL-120A (ROV)
Woods Hole
deeply-towed, near-bottom seafloor imaging and swath phase-bathymetric mapping
E.O. Wilson
Dauphin Island, Alabama
Elakha
Newport, Oregon
Oceanographic Research
F.G. Walton Smith
Miami-Dade County, Florida
Shallow water, mangroves and reefs research
Fairweather
Ketchikan, Alaska
Hydrographic Surveys, Nautical Charting
Fay Slover
Norfolk
Ferdinand R Hassler
Hampton, Virginia
Fulmar
Monterey
Georgia Bulldog
Brunswick
research platform and education-outreach
Gibraltar III
Put-in-Bay
Gordon Gunter
Gulfport, Mississippi
Fishery, Marine mammals, Oceanographic and Habitiat investigations
Grandon
Fairport
GS-1
Sandusky
bottom-sediment investigations, seismic reflection profiling and physical limnology
GS-3
Put-in-Bay
Hack Noyes
Bayfield
Healy
Portland, Oregon
research support in Polar regions, including logistics, search and rescue, ship escort and more
Henry B. Bigelow
Sullivan's Island, South Carolina
Fisheries survey
Henry M. Stommel
St.George's
Henson (USNS)
Norfolk
Hogarth
St Petersburg
Hugh R. Sharp
Lewes
Inland Seas
Suttons Bay
Ira C
Walpole
J.H. Martin
Moss Landing
oceanographic research: trawling, bottom sampling, hydrographic sampling, bird/mammal surveys
Jason II/ Medea (ROV)
Woods Hole
scientific investigation of the deep ocean and seafloor
Jim Franks
Ocean Springs
Joe Ferguson
Savannah
John B. Heiser
Rye, New Hampshire
utility and research vessel
John H. Martin
Moss Landing
Hydrographic sampling, Geophysical Survey, dive operations, Bird/Mammal Survey
John M. Kingsbury
Rye, New Hampshire
Katy
Aransas
stern trawler for class trips
Kilo Moana
Waipahu, Hawaii
Oceanographic
Lake Guardian
Bay City
Survey
Laurentian
Muskegon
Oceanography
Light
Seattle
Marcelle Melosira
Town of Highlands, New York
Marie Tharp
Norfolk
Mary Sears
Norfolk
Megalopa
Charleston
Mojave (ROV)
Humboldt Bay
Muskie
Sandusky
Mussel Point
Bodega Bay
research
Nancy Foster
Key West, Florida
Fisheries, pollution assessment, marine habitats and estuaries, oceanography
Narragansett Dawn
Narragansett
Nathaniel B. Palmer
Galliano
Antarctic oceanography
Navigator
USA
ocean mapping and nautical charting
Neeskay
Milwaukee
Oceanography
Norseman ll
Dukes County, Massachusetts
Nucella
Walpole
Ocean Titan
Seattle
Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean (TAO)
Oceanographer
Honolulu
Okeanos Explorer
Ketchikan, Alaska
Exploration and Discovery
Palmetto
Sullivan's Island, South Carolina
fishery and oceanographic surveys
Paragon
USA
Parke Snavely
Santa Cruz
Seafloor Mapping
Pathfinder (USNS)
Norfolk
acoustical, biological, physical and geophysical surveys
Pelican
Cocodrie
General Purpose Oceanographic Research
Phantom 300
Wilmington
Pluteus
Charleston
Polar Star
Seattle
Oceanogrphy, Sea-ice physics, Geology supports several research expeditions to the Arctic regions
Pugettia
Charleston
Retriever
Monterey
Heavy work on the Shallows
Robert Ballard (due 2026)
Norfolk
Robert C Seamans
Clallam County, Washington
Sailing School Vessels
Robert Gray
El Granada, California
Robertson
Seattle
Savannah
Aegina, Attica
Oceanographic Studiees in Estuarine and Continental shelf
Sculpin
Waukegan
Seahawk
Wilmington
Seth Green
Cape Vincent
stock assessment and sampling
Sheila B.
Moss Landing
Trawling, Bird/Mammal surveys, Diving, Animal Tagging, Acoustics, Equipment Deployment
Spencer F. Baird
Cheboygan
State of Michigan
Traverse City
Maritime Academy training ship equipped to support Great Lakes research
Storm
Alpena
Sturgeon
Boston, Massachusetts
Fisheries related science and aquatic science projects
Surveyor
USA
ocean mapping and nautical charting
Taani
Newport
Tidewater
Gloucester Bay
UAV Sentry
Woods Hole
Ukpik
Prudhoe Bay
Ventana (ROV)
USA
Virginia
Gloucester Point
W. G. Jackson
Muskegon
Research and education
Weatherbird II
St. Petersburg
Western Flyer
Norfolk, Virginia
William Scandling
Geneva
teaching and research chemical, physical, biology and geology
Zephyr
Monterey County, California
Zoea
Anacortes
shallow water, work in foul weather, fast transport to distant sampling sites