McARTHUR
Starboard
side view of the McARTHUR as it prepares to tie
up at Key West Harbor.
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Twin
diesel, length 175 feet, beam 38 feet, draft 12.1 feet. Built at Norfolk
Shipbuilding and Drydock, Norfolk, Virginia, 1965. In service 1966-2003
in Pacific service. Began service career as a hydrographic survey
vessel but became primary West Coast current survey vessel and thence
conducted marine mammal surveys throughout eastern tropical Pacific
for a number of years prior to decommissioning. Named for William
Pope McArthur (1814-1850), who commanded the Coast Survey Schooner
EWING on the first Coast Survey reconnaissance survey of the United
States West Coast from San Francisco to the Columbia River entrance.
