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Southeast Alaska coastal operations – supporting research efforts and moving people and supplies when and where needed," and she had completed "35 years of distinguished service supporting fisheries research in Southeast Alaska waters" at the time of her decommissioning. She
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made her ideal for operating in the region's shallow waters, and in that year the USFWS installed research equipment aboard her to address shortfalls in understanding of the oceanography of
Southeast Alaska. In her first assignment in her new role as a multipurpose oceanographic
576:, Alaska. She also served as a floating base for FWS surveillance aircraft and their crews. In 1956, the Fish and Wildlife Service underwent a major reorganization in which it was renamed the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and its ocean-going ships like
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continued her oceanographic activities. In 1972, she supported the NMFS's Marine
Resources Monitoring, Assessment, and Prediction (MARMAP) program. In August 1975 she made the first cruise to acquire information on the abundance and distribution of
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and carried out oceanographic and plankton sampling in many parts of
Southeast Alaska during the 1970s and 1980s. During the 1980s, she served as the base of operations for research activities such as the autumn collection of
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in 1978 and 1981. In 1981, she also returned to
Porcupine Creek to continue her support of the study of the effects of logging on the area. As part of "Plankton Watch 1982" – a cooperative program of the
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572:. The FWS continued to operate her as a self-propelled barge, using her to haul cargo and personnel to stream watchmen at stream guard camps and to the FWS field station at Little Port Walter in
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s main engines, forcing her to cut short her monthly oceanography cruise – in which plans had called for her to conduct both an oceanographic survey of
Traitor's Cove and midwater
709:, but rather than transfer to the consolidated NOAA fleet during 1972 or 1973 she continued to be operated and maintained directly by the NMFS′s Auke Bay Laboratory until 1987.
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also proved seaworthy, surviving various encounters with severe weather; on one occasion, while returning from a research project, she encountered a storm in the
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Commercial Fisheries (BCF). Later that year, on 11 November 1956,
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in Auke Bay weekly during 1982. She also conducted many surveys of
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Ships of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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in Southeast Alaska, and in the mid-1980s she took part in
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407:′s Bureau of Commercial Fisheries from 1956 to 1970 as
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eventually returned to her oceanographic operations.
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Ships of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service
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163:vessel in commission from 1917 to 1942
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667:National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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401:United States Department of the Interior
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263:" (FRV 63) to "research ship" (R 663)
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671:United States Department of Commerce
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472:Upon completion, the vessel entered
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19:Not to be confused with
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284:General characteristics
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232:Previous name retained
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80:Maritime Shipyards,
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429:United States Army
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586:engine room
574:Port Walter
421:, first as
350:Caterpillar
111:14 May 1949
1343:1943 ships
1322:Categories
1020:Shipwrecks
869:References
687:NOAA fleet
679:NOAA fleet
636:crankshaft
609:s shallow
455:. She was
453:Washington
337:Propulsion
150:USFS
90:Washington
21:USFS Murre
1233:USS
1224:Anchorite
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1213:Stockholm
1170:HMS
1161:Wisconsin
1159:USS
1152:USS
1141:USS
1091:USS
1072:Wave King
816:bulkheads
727:estuarine
602:existed.
570:home port
549:(FWS) at
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518:bulldozer
468:U.S. Army
459:in 1943.
340:Twin 115-
293:Fisheries
279:Sold 1991
258:fisheries
25:MV Murree
1262:14 Nov:
1255:Murre II
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1235:Antietam
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857:See also
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803:Murre II
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760:plankton
714:Murre II
705:Murre II
699:(FRV 63)
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632:Murre II
624:Auke Bay
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561:Murre II
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506:Murre II
482:BSP-1915
457:launched
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389:(FRV 63)
387:Murre II
379:Murre II
305:95
268:Homeport
237:Acquired
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222:Murre II
176:Homeport
168:Acquired
146:Namesake
140:Murre II
96:Launched
71:BSP-1915
41:Murre II
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848:scallop
836:Poulsbo
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723:logging
707:(R 663)
589:furnace
559:US FWS
541:to the
485:during
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431:during
409:US FWS
381:(R 663)
302:Tonnage
138:US FWS
88:,
86:Seattle
77:Builder
48:History
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1172:Talent
1082:Domiat
1041:Conlea
781:Canada
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695:NOAAS
566:Juneau
555:Alaska
551:Kodiak
516:and a
514:lumber
385:NOAAS
377:NOAAS
313:Length
256:From "
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1051:Warri
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367:Range
359:Speed
329:Draft
152:Murre
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1296:1955
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289:Type
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248:1989
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