US FWS Albatross III
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For other ships with the same name, see RV Albatross.
"Albatross III" redirects here. For the German fighter aircraft, see Albatros D.III.
US FWS Albatross III was a fisheries research ship in commission in the United States Fish and Wildlife Service from 1948 to 1959. Prior to her Fish and Wildlife Service career, she operated as the commercial fishing trawler SS Harvard and briefly saw service during World War II as the United States Coast Guard patrol vessel USCGC Bellefonte (WYP-373), in commission from April to August 1944. She was wrecked in Cuba as Nyleve in 1969.
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United States | |
Name | SS Harvard |
Owner | General Seafoods Corporation |
Builder | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
Completed | 1926 |
Fate | Sold to U.S. Government 1939 |
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | |
Name | US FWS Albatross III |
Namesake | Predecessors USFC/USFS Albatross and USFS Albatross II |
Acquired | 1939 |
Fate | Transferred to U.S. Coast Guard 1942 |
Acquired | Transferred from U.S. Coast Guard 1944 |
Commissioned | 19 March 1948 |
Decommissioned | March 1959 |
Fate | Sold November 1959 |
United States Coast Guard | |
Name | USCGC Bellefonte (WYP-373) |
Acquired | 1942 |
Commissioned | 6 April 1944 |
Decommissioned | 22 August 1944 |
Fate | Transferred to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1944 |
Panama | |
Name | MV Nyleve |
Owner | Enos Shipping Corporation (1963) |
Fate | Wrecked 28 March 1969 |
General characteristics (as fisheries research ship) | |
Type | Fisheries research ship |
Displacement | 525 tons |
Length | 179 ft (55 m) |
Beam | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
Draft | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
Installed power | Three diesel motor-generator sets, 140 kW of 110-volt DC power |
Propulsion | Fairbanks-Morse seven-cylinder, 805-hp (600-kW) diesel engine |
Range | 4,500 nm (8,333 km) cruising |
Complement | 35 personnel: 21 (later 18) crew, 6 scientists, and accommodation for 8 additional personnel |
General characteristics (as Coast Guard patrol vessel) | |
Type | Patrol vessel |
Length | 179 ft (55 m) |
Beam | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
Propulsion | Fairbanks-Morse seven-cylinder, 805-hp (600-kW) diesel engine |
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