List of research vessels by country
Encyclopedia
Argentina
Australia
France
- RV Côte d'Aquitaine
- RV Côtes de la Manche
- RV Gwen-Drez
- RV Atalante
- RV Europe
- RV Curieuse
- RV Suroît
- RV
- RV
- RV
- RV Thalia
- RV Thethys II
Germany
- FRV Walther HerwigWalther HerwigWalther Herwig was a Prussian administrative lawyer, and the founder of the German fisheries science....
III - FRV Atair
- FRV Deneb
- FRV Wega
- FRV Capella
- FRV Komet
- FRV Clupea
- FRV Solea
- RV Alkor
- RV Littorina
- Mya
- RV Haithabu
- RV Senckenberg
- RV Ludwig Prandtl
- RV Meteor III
- FRV Planet
- RV Poseidon
- RV Alexander von Humboldt (replaced by Maria S. Merian)
- FGS PlanetPlanet class research shipThe Type 751 Planet of the German Navy is the most modern naval research ship within NATO. It was built as SWATH design in order to reduce the hull volume and to increase the ship's stability - particularly in high seas and at high speed....
Ireland
- RV Celtic Explorer
- RV Celtic Voyager
- RV Keary
Italy
- RV Andrea
- RV Astrea
- RV Cerruti
- RV Dallaporta
- RV Furetto
- RV Italica
- RV Luigi Sanzo
- RV Maria Grazia
- RV OGS Explora
- RV Regione Lazio 1
- RV Tecnopesca II
- RV Trer
- RV Universitaties
- RV Urania
Italian Navy
Italian Navy
Italian Navy may refer to:* Pre-unitarian navies of the Italian states* Regia Marina, the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of Italy * Italian Navy , the navy of the Italian Republic...
- RV Ammiraglio Magnaghi
- RV Aretusa
- RV Elettra
- RV Galatea
- RV Leonardo
- RV Martellotta
- RV Rossetti
Japan
- RV Chikyuu
- RV Hakuho Maru
- RV Kairei
- RV Kaiyo (formerly, MutsuMutsu (ship)Mutsu was Japan's first, and only nuclear-powered ship. It was built as a nuclear merchant ship, one of four such vessels ever constructed, but never carried commercial cargo.-Nuclear propulsion tests:...
) - RV Natsushima
- RV Shigen (formerly, RV Ramform Victory of Petroleum Geo-ServicesPetroleum Geo-ServicesPetroleum Geo-Services ASA, an oilfield service company, provides geophysical services worldwide. The company provides various seismic and reservoir services, including acquisition, processing, interpretation, and field evaluation. The floating production unit was demerged in 2006 and listed as a...
) - RV Umitaka Maru
- RV Yokosuka
- RV Nisshin Maru
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
The , or JMSDF, is the naval branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, tasked with the naval defense of Japan. It was formed following the dissolution of the Imperial Japanese Navy after World War II....
operated vessels
- RV Akashi (Retired)
- RV Futami
- RV Nichinan
- RV Suma
- RV Wakasa
Norway
- RV G.M. Dannevig
- RV Johan Hjort
- RV Helmer Hanssen (Jan Mayen)
- RV Håkon Mosby
- RV Dr Fridtjof Nansen
- RV Johan Ruud
- RV G.O. Sars
- RV Trygve Braarud
- RV Bjørn Føyn
- RV Lance
Poland
- ORP Kopernik
- RV Baltica
- RV Doktor Lubecki
- RV IMOR
- RV Kaszubski Brzeg
- RV Oceanograf 1
- RV Oceanograf 2
- ORP Planeta (retired)
- ORP Zodiak (retired)
- RV Birkut (retired)
- RV Hydromet (retired)
- RV Pomorzanin (retired)
- RV Professor Bogucki (retired)
- RV Professor Siedlecki (retired)
- RV Wieczno (retired)
Soviet Union/Russia
List of current operating research vessels of RussiaRussia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, a lot of them are operated since Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
times:
- RV Aisberg-II
- RV Akademik Aleksandr Nesmeyanov
- RV Akademik Aleksandr Sidorenko
- RV Akademik Boris Petrov
- RV
- RV Akademik Ioffe
- RV Akademik Korolyov
- RV Akademik M.A.Lavrentyev
- RV
- RV Akademik Nikolay Strakhov
- RV Akademik Oparin
- RV
- RV
- RV Akvanavt
- RV Aleksei Chirikov
- RV Amur
- RV Andrei Vilkitzky
- RV Arktika
- RV Artemida
- RV Atlantida
- RV Atlantniro
- RV Atlas
- RV Atmosfera
- RV Bar
- RV Boris Davidov
- RV Briz
- RV Buran
- RV Dalniye Zelentsy
- RV Dmitry Peskov
- RV Faddey Bellinsgausen
- RV Fritiof Nansen
- RV Fyodor Litke
- RV Gals
- RV Gelendzhik
- RV Geo Arctic
- RV Geofizik
- RV Geolog Dmitriy Nalivkin
- RV Geolog Fersman
- RV Gidrobiolog
- RV Gidrolog
- RV Gidrofizik
- RV Gigrometr
- RV Glubina
- RV Groza
- RV Impuls
- RV Ivan Kruzenshtern
- RV Ivan Petrov
- RV Jakov Smirnitskiy
- RV Kapitan Dranitsyn
- RV Kol'skaja
- RV Kompas
- RV Leonid Morozov
- RV Lugovoe
- RV Mangazeya
- RV Metan
- RV Mikhail Verbitskiy
- RV Miraz
- RV Murmanskaja
- RV Okean
- RV Pamyat Merkuriya
- RV Pavel Gordienko
- RV Persey (operated between 1922 and 1941, the first Soviet research vessel)
- RV Pomor
- RV Priboy
- RV Priliv
- RV Professor Bogorov
- RV Professor Gagarinskiy
- RV Professor Kaganovskiy
- RV Professor Khromov
- RV Professor Kurentsov
- RV Professor Logachev
- RV
- RV Professor Multanovskyi
- RV Professor Shtokman
- RV Professor Zubov
- RV Rift
- RV Roumb
- RV Semyon Dezhnev
- RV Shelf
- RV Smolensk
- RV Taimyr
- RV Tantal
- RV Tor
- RV Vadim Popov
- RV Valentin Shashin
- RV Valerian Uryvayev
- RV Viktor Buynitskiy
- RV Vsevolod Timonov
- RV Vulkanolog Вулканолог (судно)
- RV Vyacheslav Frolov
- RV Yantar
- RV Yaroslavets
- RV Yuzhmorgeologiya
- RV Zapolyarjye
- RV Zenit
Turkey
- RV K. Piri ReisRV K. Piri ReisThe RV K. Piri Reis is a Turkish multi purpose research vessel owned by Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir and operated by its Institute of Marine Sciences and Technology. Built in West Germany and launched in 1978, she was named in honor of the Ottoman naval captain and renowned cartographer Piri...
- RV MTA SelenRV MTA SelenThe RV MTA Selen is a Turkish research vessel owned by the General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration in Ankara and operated by its division of Geophysical Directorate for subsea geophysical exploration in shallow waters....
- RV MTA Sismik 1RV MTA Sismik 1The RV MTA Sismik 1 is a decommissioned Turkish research vessel belonging to Istanbul Technical University. She is operated by its Faculty of Maritime for training purposes...
Natural Environment Research CouncilNatural Environment Research CouncilThe Natural Environment Research Council is a British research council that supports research, training and knowledge transfer activities in the environmental sciences.-History:...
Plymouth Marine LaboratoryPlymouth Marine Laboratory
Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the city of Plymouth, England is an independent collaborative centre of the Natural Environment Research Council . PML's Chairman is Terence Lewis and PML's Chief Executive is Prof. Stephen de Mora.They focus global issues of climate change and sustainability...
Plymouth Marine Laboratory Plymouth Marine Laboratory (Ocean Weather Ship)
University Marine Biological Station Millport
(LondonUniversity of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
& Glasgow
University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...
Universities)
United States
National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationNational Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , pronounced , like "noah", is a scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce focused on the conditions of the oceans and the atmosphere...
- NOAAS Bell M. ShimadaNOAAS Bell M. Shimada (R 227)NOAAS Bell M. Shimada is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research vessel launched in September 2008. The ship was named by students at Marina High School in Monterey, California, who won NOAA's vessel-naming contest. The ship's namesake, Bell M...
- NOAAS David Starr Jordan (Class IV)
- NOAAS Delaware II (Class IV)
- NOAAS Fairweather (Class II)
- NOAAS Gordon GunterUSNS Relentless (T-AGOS-18)USNS Relentless was a Stalwart class Modified Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance Ship of the United States Navy.Stalwart class ships were originally designed to collect underwater acoustical data in support of Cold war anti-submarine warfare operations in the 1980s...
(Class III) - NOAAS Hi'ialakaiUSNS Vindicator (T-AGOS-3)NOAAS Hi'ialakai is a research vessel for the NOAA, but was originally commissioned as USS Vindicator, as a Stalwart class Modified Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance Ship for the United States Navy...
(Class III) - NOAAS Henry B. Bigelow (Class II)
- NOAAS Ka'imimoanaUSNS Titan (T-AGOS-15)USNS Titan was a Stalwart class Modified Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance Ship of the United States Navy.-History:...
(Class III) - NOAAS Miller Freeman (Class II)
- NOAAS McArthur IIUSNS Indomitable (T-AGOS-7)USNS Indomitable was a United States Navy Stalwart class ocean surveillance ship in service from 1985 to 2002.-History:Indomitable was laid down by the Tacoma Boatbuilding Company at Tacoma, Washington on 26 January 1985 and launched on 16 July 1985. She was delivered to the U.S. Navy on 26...
(Class III) (Class III) (Class III) - NOAAS Oregon II (Class III)
- NOAAS Oscar Dyson (Class II)
- NOAAS Oscar Elton SetteUSNS Adventurous (T-AGOS-13)USNS Adventurous was a Stalwart class Modified Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance Ship of the United States Navy....
(Class III) (Class I) (Class II) (Class II)
http://www.moc.noaa.gov/flt_char.htm
Others
- SSV Corwith CramerCorwith Cramer (ship)The Corwith Cramer is a tall ship owned by the Sea Education Association sailing school, named after SEA's founding director. Her home port is Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA. She was designed by Wooden and Marean specifically for SEA and was constructed by ASTACE in 1987 in Bilbao, Spain...
- RV Cape Hatteras (DukeDuke UniversityDuke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
/University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...
) - RV Coral Reef II (John G. Shedd AquariumShedd AquariumThe John G. Shedd Aquarium is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago, Illinois in the United States that opened on May 30, 1930. The aquarium contains over 25,000 fish, and was for some time the largest indoor aquarium in the world with of water. The Shedd Aquarium was the first inland aquarium with...
) (URIUniversity of Rhode IslandThe University of Rhode Island is the principal public research university in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Its main campus is located in Kingston. Additional campuses include the Feinstein Campus in Providence, the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett, and the W. Alton Jones Campus in West...
) (University of Delaware Marine and Earth StudiesUniversity of DelawareThe university is organized into seven colleges:* College of Agriculture and Natural Resources* College of Arts and Sciences* Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics* College of Earth, Ocean and Environment* College of Education and Human Development...
, in service 2005) - RV Savannah (SkIOSkidaway Institute of OceanographyThe Skidaway Institute of Oceanography is an internationally renowned marine science research institute located on the northern end of Skidaway Island near Savannah, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1968, it is part of the University System of Georgia as an independent research unit...
) - RV Te VegaSchooner Te VegaThe Te Vega is a two-masted, gaff-rigged auxiliary schooner. Originally launched as the Etak, she was designed by New York naval architects Cox & Stevens in 1929 for American businessman Walter Graeme Ladd and his wife, Catherine Everit Macy Ladd...
(Hopkins Marine StationHopkins Marine StationHopkins Marine Station is the marine laboratory of Stanford University. It is located ninety miles south of the university's main campus, in Pacific Grove, California on the Monterey Peninsula, adjacent to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It is home to nine research laboratories and a fluctuating...
) (University of WashingtonUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
) (Oregon State UniversityOregon State UniversityOregon State University is a coeducational, public research university located in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. The university offers undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees and a multitude of research opportunities. There are more than 200 academic degree programs offered through the...
) - DV JOIDES Resolution
- FWS Black DouglasSchooner Black DouglasThe Black Douglas is a three-masted staysail auxiliary schooner built for Robert C. Roebling at the Bath Iron Works of Bath, Maine, and launched on 9 June 1930. Designed by renowned New York naval architects H.J...
- RV FG Walton Smith
Survey ships
Hydrographic Surveying Squadron
(Replaced in 1997 as Ocean surveying vessel) (Antarctic) (Coastal) (Coastal) (Multi-Role Survey Vessel) (Multi-Role Survey Vessel)( Paid off in 2002).
Non-military
Humber Sentinel
United States
and- Other members of the US Navy fleet with "AGS" notation