USC&GS Oceanographer (OSS-26)
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Oceanographer was built as the pirvate yacht Corsair III for the industrialist J. P. Morgan, Jr., in 1899; sources differ as to her builder, but it was either T. S. Marvel and Sons at Newberg, New York, or W. & A. Fletcher Company at Hoboken, New Jersey. In 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired Corsair III from Morgan for World War I service and commissioned her as the patrol vessel USS Corsair (SP-159). Corsair was returned to Morgan in 1919 and once again became Corsair III. On 2 January 1930, the Coast and Geodetic Survey purchased Corsair III from Morgan ...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Oceanographer was built as the pirvate yacht Corsair III for the industrialist J. P. Morgan, Jr., in 1899; sources differ as to her builder, but it was either T. S. Marvel and Sons at Newberg, New York, or W. & A. Fletcher Company at Hoboken, New Jersey. In 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired Corsair III from Morgan for World War I service and commissioned her as the patrol vessel USS Corsair (SP-159). Corsair was returned to Morgan in 1919 and once again became Corsair III. On 2 January 1930, the Coast and Geodetic Survey purchased Corsair III from Morgan for $1.00 (USD) for use as a survey ship, and placed her in service as USC&GS Oceanographer (OSS-26) that year. Oceanographer operated along the United States East Coast during her career with the Survey. Oceanographer conducted many offshore surveys and discovered many of the canyons incising the continental slope between the Georges Bank area and Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. She also supported the study of geophysics when Maurice Ewing conducted his first seismic reflection profiling experiments from her in 1935.
