Research vessels Scripps Institution of Oceanography

scripps research vessel roger revelle

scripps owns , operates several research vessels , platforms:

rv roger revelle
rv sally ride
rv robert gordon sproul
rp flip


current , previous vessels larger 50 ft (15 m)


1906–???? – rv loma
1907–1917 – rv alexander agassiz
1918–1918 – rv ellen browning
1925–1936 – rv scripps
1937–1955 – rv e. w. scripps
1955–1965 – rv stranger (operated uss jasper 1941 1947 uc division of war research)
1947–1956 – rv crest
1947–1969 – rv horizon
1948–1965 – rv paolina-t
1951–1965 – rv spencer f.baird
1955–1969 – t-441
1956–1962 – rv orca
1959–1963 – rv hugh m. smith
1959–1970 – rv argo (official navy name snatch)
1962–1976 – rv alexander agassiz
1962–present – rp flip
1962–1974 – rv oconostota (the oconostota known rolling o because of unpleasant motion.)
1965–1980 – rv alpha helix (transferred university of alaska, fairbanks in 1980 (uaf sold vessel in 2007 stabbert maritime)
1965–???? – rv ellen b. scripps
1966–1992 – rv thomas washington (transferred chile , renamed vidal gormaz)
1969–2014 – rv melville
1973–???? – rv gianna
1978–2015 – rv new horizon
1984–present – rv robert gordon sproul
1995–present – rv roger revelle
2016–present – rv sally ride




^ sio timeline, sio archives, ucsd online collection. shor, e., scripps in 1950s: decade of bluewater oceanography, journal of san diego history, v29:4, 1983. shor, e., sio: probing oceans 1936–1976, tofua press, san diego, 1978.