USFC ''Phalarope'' was an American

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and

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that operated along the coast of

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. She was part of the fleet of the United States Commission on Fish and Fisheries, generally referred to as the

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, from 1900 to 1903 and in the fleet of its successor, the

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, as USFS ''Phalarope'' from 1903 until 1917 and again from 1919 until

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1933. She was in commission in the

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as the

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USS ''Phalarope'' from 1917 to 1919, seeing service during

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. Before her

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service, she was the

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''Adelita''.

Service history

Early history

The vessel was constructed as the

''Adelita'' in the

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section of

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, in 1881.''Thirty-Fourth Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States With the Official Numbers and Signal Letters Awarded Them By the Commissioner of Navigation'', Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1902, p. 435.
/ref> In private use, her home port was Boston.''Eighteenth Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States With the Official Numbers and Signal Letters Awarded Them By the Commissioner of Navigation'', Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1886, p. 296
/ref>

U.S. Fish Commission

Several years after the U.S. Fish Commission had identified a requirement for a large and seaworthy steamer capable of operating well offshore to support its stations in

for both

and

research, the

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authorized the purchase of such a vessel on 3 March 1899.Commissioner's Report 1900, p. 23. The Fish Commission chose ''Adelita'', purchased her on 23 November 1899, and renamed her ''Phalarope''. She was commissioned as USFC ''Phalarope'' in May 1900. The Fish Commission assigned her to its station at

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, Massachusetts. She soon established the annual routine for her career, which involved supporting fish-culture work at Woods Hole and on the

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at the

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at Bryans Point,

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. In June 1903, ''Phalarope'' transported live

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fry from the

at the Fish Commission's Woods Hole station to the Rhode Island Commission of Inland Fisheries floating laboratory at

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, which participated in Fish Commission experiments in breeding lobsters.

U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (1903–1917)

By an

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of 14 February 1903, the U.S. Fish Commission became part of the newly created

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and was reorganized as the United States Bureau of Fisheries, with both the transfer and the name change effective on 1 July 1903. As USFS ''Phalarope'', ''Phalarope'' became part of the Bureau of Fisheries fleet and continued her annual routine of supporting fish-culture activities at Woods Hole and Bryans Point. During

1904 (1 July 1903–30 June 1904), new

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tanks were installed aboard ''Phalarope'' and alterations were made to her

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and

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. During the research seasons of both 1904 and 1905, she joined the Bureau of Fisheries research vessel in

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the waters in the vicinity of Woods Hole as part of a

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survey of the area's marine life, contributing to an ultimate goal of compiling and cataloguing records of the distribution of all the fauna and flora of the region. An accident in 1905 prevented ''Phalarope'' from completing her dredging operations in western

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that summer and delayed further dredging there until 1907, but ''Phalarope'' returned to the dredging operations, joining ''Fish Hawk'' and the launch ''Blue Wing'' in them in the summers of 1906, 1907, 1908, and 1909. By November 1912, ''Phalarope'' was involved in the autumn collection of

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eggs off Sagamore, Massachusetts, for the Woods Hole station. In early 1913, she operated on the

to collect

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eggs from

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and transfer them to a

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anchored in Occoquan Bay on the river's

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shoreline that had been converted into a floating fish hatchery. From late November 1913 to 9 January 1914, she again collected cod eggs off Sagamore. In autumn 1914, the Bureau of Fisheries stationed her off

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, Massachusetts, for the collection of cod eggs. Each spring from 1915 through 1917, she operated on the Potomac River to assist in hatching

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U.S. Navy

The

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entered

on 6 April 1917, and on 19 May 1917 the

took over ''Phalarope'' for war service. After converting her for use as a

, the Navy commissioned her as USS ''Phalarope'' on 6 December 1917. The Navy assigned ''Phalarope'' to the

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and based her at Woods Hole. She patrolled from Woods Hole through the end of World War I on 11 November 1918 and in its immediate aftermath. After the Navy decommissioned her, it handed her back to the Bureau of Fisheries on 29 July 1919Commissioner's Report 1919, p. 55. and officially transferred her back to the Bureau on 2 August 1919.

U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (1919–1930s)

''Phalarope'' once again became USFS ''Phalarope''. The Bureau of Fisheries reported to the

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in 1919 that the Navy had returned her in good condition. Under an

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dated 24 May 1919 addressing the disposition of vessels the Navy no longer required, the Navy transferred several decommissioned patrol vessels, including and , to the Bureau of Fisheries, which took possession of ''Calypso'' and ''Cobra'' at Quincy, Massachusetts, in July 1919.Commissioner's Report 1919, p. 13.NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center "AFSC Historical Corner: ''Petrel'' and ''Merganser'', World War I Boats"
/ref> After her own return to the Bureau, ''Phalarope'' towed ''Calypso'' and ''Cobra'', which the Bureau had renamed USFS ''Merganser'' and USFS ''Petrel'', respectively, to Woods Hole. She then towed ''Merganser'' and ''Petrel'' to the

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, so that they could be loaded aboard the U.S. Navy collier for transportation to the

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, where they were to serve as fishery patrol vessels. After the Bureau took possession of the former Navy patrol vessel – which the Bureau renamed USFS ''Fulmar'' – at Quincy in October 1919, ''Phalarope'' towed her to Woods Hole.Commissioner's Report 1919, pp. 13–14. ''Phalarope'' returned to her routine pre-war duties, supporting

work at the Bureau of Fisheries stations at Woods Hole and on the Potomac River at Bryans Point, Maryland, and later at Fort Humphreys, Virginia. Due to a lack of operating funds during fiscal year 1922 (1 July 1921–30 June 1922), her operations were very limited, only occurring at Woods Hole and only during August 1921; her crew was occupied during July, September, and October 1921 with getting USFS ''Fulmar'' prepared for fisheries work and with transferring ''Fulmar'' from Woods Hole to her new home port at

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. During the summer and autumn of 1923, ''Phalarope'' made several cruises in

and

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using a young-fish

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and

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nets to support a study of the seasonal distribution of the species occurring in the Woods Hole area in relation to temperature,

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, and other physical factors and particularly in relation to the other organisms occurring with them.Commissioner's Report 1924, pp. 21–22. The information gathered for the study also formed the basis for a later study of the food of larval fish.Commissioner's Report 1924, p. 21. Late in October 1923 she was stationed at the eastern entrance to the

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for the annual collection of cod eggs for the Bureau of Fisheries Woods Hole fish hatchery. During the summer of 1924, ''Phalarope'' joined the Bureau of Fisheries steamer in using

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and

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to conduct a survey of the coast between

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, and Woods Hole to support an investigation of the early development of cod,

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, and

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off the New England coast by gathering information on the migrations, feeding habits, and enemies of the young fish after they leave the surface waters and enter the shallow shore zone. During the rest of fiscal year 1925 (1 July 1924–30 June 1925) she followed her usual routine of fish culture work at Woods Hole and Bryans Point. A 1962 publication of the Bureau of Fisheries′ successor organization, the

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, described ''Phalarope''′s typical working day at the Bureau's Woods Hole station during the 1920s as follows:

The working day at the Fisheries Laboratory usually started with a collecting trip to
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s, or for dredging or taking plankton samples. The small
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-burning steamer ''Phalarope'' under the command of Capt inR. N. Veeder, was used for this purpose.
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s and M rineB ologicalL boratoryinvestigators interested in making a trip were welcome. A group desiring to get aboard usually gathered by 9:00 a.m. at the Fisheries dock. Many persons wanted to watch the dredging or seining and were not concerned with obtaining the material. Robert A. Goffin, collector for the Fisheries Laboratory, and two fish culturists formed the collecting crew. With the exception of long trips, which sometimes lasted the whole day, the ''Phalarope'' would return about noontime, early enough for the participants to change and be ready for their luncheon, which was served by the MBL
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sharply at 1:30 p.m. The collecting trip became so popular, especially when the weather was good, that the number of passengers on board had to be restricted to conform to safety regulations enforced by the
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. If something exciting happened during the trip, for instance the catch of a big
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or large
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, everybody would dash to one side of the vessel and cause a dangerous list. In later years, Capt inVeeder refused to take more than 20 persons aboard. In addition to the material needed for research at the Fisheries and collected by the scientists themselves or under their supervision, the ''Phalarope'' brought live fishes for the
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, which was open to the public every day of the week.

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records list ''Phalarope'' as being in the Bureau of Fisheries fleet as of 30 June 1932 but not as of 30 June 1933,U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, ''Merchant Vessels of the United States (Including Yachts and Government Vessels), Year Ended June 30, 1933'', Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1932, pp. 151, 1131.
/ref> indicating that the Bureau retired her sometime during fiscal year 1933 (1 July 1932–30 June 1933).

References

Footnotes

Bibliography

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