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Southeast Alaska. In her first assignment in her new role as a multipurpose oceanographic
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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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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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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
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174:vessel in commission from 1917 to 1942
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678:National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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295:General characteristics
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432:, first as
361:Caterpillar
122:14 May 1949
1354:1943 ships
1333:Categories
1031:Shipwrecks
880:References
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690:NOAA fleet
647:crankshaft
620:s shallow
466:. She was
464:Washington
348:Propulsion
161:USFS
101:Washington
32:USFS Murre
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1181:HMS
1172:Wisconsin
1170:USS
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1083:Wave King
827:bulkheads
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613:existed.
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560:(FWS) at
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529:bulldozer
479:U.S. Army
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304:Fisheries
290:Sold 1991
269:fisheries
36:MV Murree
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868:See also
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771:plankton
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400:(FRV 63)
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52:Murre II
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718:(R 663)
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570:US FWS
552:to the
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99:,
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88:Builder
59:History
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792:Canada
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562:Kodiak
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388:NOAAS
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357:kw
353:hp
318:NT
95:,
1017:e
1010:t
1003:v
790:–
38:.
20:)
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