NOAAS ''Ferdinand R. Hassler'' (S 250) is a coastal mapping vessel for the

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA ) is an United States scientific and regulatory agency within the United States Department of Commerce that forecasts weather, monitors oceanic and atmospheric conditio ...

. Commissioned on 8 June 2012, ''Ferdinand R. Hassler'' is one of the newest additions to the NOAA hydrographic charting fleet. Operating from the

Great Lakes The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the mid-east region of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River. There are five lakes ...

to the

Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico ( es, Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin, ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of ...

, the ship's primary mission is hydrographic survey in support of NOAA's nautical charting mission. The ship's home port is New Castle,

New Hampshire New Hampshire is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...

. On 8 May 2015, ''Ferdinand R. Hassler'' completed a US$1 million overhaul at the

United States Coast Guard Yard The United States Coast Guard Yard or just Coast Guard Yard is a United States Coast Guard operated shipyard located on Curtis Bay in northern Anne Arundel County, Maryland, just south of the Baltimore city limits. It is the largest industrial fac ...

at Curtis Bay outside

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.Anonymous, "Curtis Bay yard finishes $1M overhaul of NOAA mapping vessel," capitalgazette.com, May 8, 2015, 8:15 p.m. EDT Retrieved August 20, 2018
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References

External links

NOAA Ship ''Ferdinand R. Hassler'' website
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