Melville 2009 Taiwan R/V Melville, drydocked in Keelung, Taiwan due to a lost propeller.

All information below adopted from SIO website, photo (right) from flicker: (for my personal interest)

 

R/V Melville

  • Built: 1969
  • Mid-Life: 1992
  • Length: 279'
  • Beam: 46'
  • Draft (max): 16.6'
  • Gross Tonnage: 2,516 tons
  • Displacement: 2,944 long tons
  • Crew: 23
  • Scientific berthing: 38
  • Motors: Two 1,385 hp Propulsion General Electric
  • Bow Thruster: 900 hp Retractable Azimuthing Thruster
  • Propulsion: Two 1385 hp Z-Drive Lips
  • Water Capacity: 15,900 gal
  • Incinerator: Yes
  • Fuel Consumption: 3,600 gal/day (transit)
  • Speed, Cruising: 11.7 knots
  • Speed, Maximum: 14 knots
  • Speed, Minimum: variable to 0, any direction
  • Endurance: 40 days at 11.7 knots (fuel)
  • Range: 10,061 nm at 11.7 knots (fuel)
  • Fuel Capacity: 129,000 (planning)
  • Radio Call Sign: WECB
  • Laboratory Space: 2,636 sq. ft
  • Main Deck Working Area: 4,050 sq. ft
  • Freeboard: 12 ft
  • Sewage System: MSD
  • Holding Tanks: 8,000 gal
  • Document/State I.D#: CF0719XS

Scientific berthing at 38 assumes 2 persons in the chief scientist room, and 4 persons in the dormitory.
Ownership:
Title held by U.S. Navy. Operated under charter agreement with Office of Naval Research.

Navigational Capabilities

  • GPS Trimble Tansmon P-Code
  • GPs Trimble NT 200 DGPS
  • RADAR Sperry 3cm, 10cm
  • ADU GPs Ashtech Attitude-sensing System
  • Fathometer Use EDO Doppler Speed Log
  • Gyro - Sperry MK 37, MK 23
  • Doppler Speed Log - EDO 300 kHz
  • Dynamic Positioning - ROBERTSON
  • ADF - SIMRAD Taiyo

Permanent scientific equipment

EQUIPMENT MFGR/MODEL FREQ (kHz) NOTES
Multibeam EM120
 12 120 deg. swath, bathymetry and sidescan
Sub-Bottom Profiler Knudsen 320 B 3.5 / 12  
Magnetometer Geometrics G-886   Towed Magnetometer
Gravity Meter Bell BGM - 3    
ADCP RDI Narrowband 150  
Underway Data System     Meteorological and Sea Surface
Comm / Data Network     Ethernet, Audiovisual in labs and staterooms, F/O and copper links
Computer System Sun Enterprise 450 servers (2) Solaris and UNIX 200 Gbytes Disk, CD-ROM, DAT and Exabyte Tapes
Work Stations UNIX and PC   Numerous in Labs
Printers/ Plotters     Laserjet and color inkjet
Ocean Surveyor Teledyne-RDI 75 http://www.rdinstruments.com/surveyor.html

Bioanalytical Lab with precision temperature control. Use of isotopes is prohibited in ship's laboratories. Isotope isolation vans are available by request. Other equipment and technical services available on cruise-specific basis.

Vans: Numerous van placement locations on main deck, winch deck and forward on 02 deck.

Communications: VHF, SSB voice, and INMARSAT voice and data.
In-port San Diego phone number: (858) 534-1646
INMARSAT phone number: 011-872-1503656
INMARSAT fax: 011-872--81-1503656
INMARSAT area code is 872 when ship is in Pacific; other codes are 871, 873, or 874 for east Atlantic, west Atlantic, Indian Ocean.

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