Design

• Designer: Robert H. Macy
• Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, MS
• Launched: February 1967
• Delivered: August 1967
• Commissioned: March 17, 1977
• Hull Number: R 332
• Call Letters: WTDO
• Home Port: Pascagoula, Mississippi

• Length (LOA): 51.8 m (170 ft.)
• Breadth (moulded): 10.4 m (34 ft.)
• Draft, Maximum: 4.3 m (14.0 ft.)
• Hull: Welded Steel
• Displacement: 952 tons
• Gross Tonnage: 703 tons
• Net Tonnage: 228 tons

Speed & Endurance

• Cruising Speed: 10 knots
• Range: 7,810 nmi
• Endurance: 33 days
• Endurance Constraint: Stability

Scientific Laboratory Facilities

• Wet Oceanographic Lab: 275 sq. ft.
• Specimen Lab: 100 sq. ft.
• Instrumentation Lab: 75 sq. ft.
• Hydrographic Lab: 210 sq. ft.

Food Service Seating

• General mess: 12

Berthing

• Single staterooms: 3
• Double staterooms: 14
• Total bunks: 31

Medical Facilities

• Emergency and first-aid equipment aboard, administered by designated vessel personnel.

Complement

• Commisioned Officers: 4
• Licensed Deck Officers: 1
• Licensed Engineers: 3
• Crew: 10
• Scientists: 13 (Max)