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RV Alliance, NATO Research Vessel under Italian Navy flag since January 1, 2016 RV Elettra of the Italian Navy. RV Alliance A 5345 (NATO vessel, since 1 January 2016 under Italian Navy flag) RV Leonardo A 5301 (NATO vessel, since 11 May 2007 under Italian government flag and since 14 May 2010 under Italian Navy flag) RV Ammiraglio Magnaghi A ...
A research vessel (RV or R/V) is a ship or boat designed, modified, or equipped to carry out research at sea.Research vessels carry out a number of roles. Some of these roles can be combined into a single vessel but others require a dedicated vessel.
The ship, second given the name by the Navy, was completed and delivered to the Navy on 1 August 1969 then placed in service with the Military Sea Transportation Service as USNS Melville (T-AGOR 14). Melville was chartered to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography for operation by the Office of Naval Research as part of the UNOLS fleet.
RV Calypso is a former British Royal Navy minesweeper converted into a research vessel for the oceanographic researcher Jacques Cousteau, equipped with a mobile laboratory for underwater field research. She was severely damaged in 1996 and was planned to undergo a complete refurbishment in 2009–2011 that has not been accomplished.
RV Roger Revelle is a Thomas G. Thompson-class oceanographic research ship operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography under charter agreement with Office of Naval Research as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) fleet. [2]
RV Kaharoa is a research vessel operated by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) of New Zealand.Launched in 1981, the vessel has undertaken a wide range of surveys, data from which has led to the discovery of several new species, such as a new species of eelpout, five new species of Fissuroderes and a new species of copepod in the genus Bradyidius.
RV Sonne (German for Sun) is a German deep ocean research vessel. The ship became available for science in December 2014 [ 17 ] and it operates mainly in the Pacific and the Indian Oceans. [ 16 ] She is registered in Wilhelmshaven and replaced its predecessor of the same name.
RV Tom Crean is a multi-purpose research vessel operated by the Marine Institute of Galway, Ireland.It entered service in 2022 for use in fisheries research, oceanographic, hydrographic and geological research as well as deploying and maintaining weather buoys, observational infrastructure and remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) in the Irish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). [8]