Atlantis (ship, 1931)

Atlantis

Ship data flag  United States Argentina   other ship names El Austral (1966-2006) Ship type Research ship Shipyard Burmeister & Wain , Copenhagen Launch December 1930 Commissioning 1931 Whereabouts scrapped from 2006

Ship dimensions and crew length 43.3 m ( Lüa ) width 8.8 m Draft Max. 5.2 m displacement 460  t   crew 28 men

Machine system machine diesel Machine performance 280 PS (206 kW)

Rigging and rigging Rigging Ketch Number of masts 2

The research vessel Atlantis was operated from 1931 to 1966 by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution , Massachusetts . It was a 460 ton ketch equipped with two masts. The Atlantis was the first US ship to be used for oceanographic research . It was also the namesake for the space shuttle Atlantis .

Since 1966, the ketch served the Argentine Prefectura Naval Argentina as El Austral . Under the name of Dr. Bernardo Houssay , a replica of the El Austral was created and the original ship was scrapped.

literature

• Susan Schlee: On Almost Any Wind: The Saga of the Oceanographic Research Vessel "Atlantis" , 1978, Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0801411601

Web links

Commons : Atlantis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• NASA: Description and flights of the Atlantis , contains in the introduction a treatise on the research ship
• As the research vessel Atlantis for namesake of the spaceship Atlantis was
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Atlantis
• Dates from El Austral
• Ship overhaul report (Spanish)
• Postcard with postage stamp of Dr. Bernardo Houssay

Footnotes

1. ↑ Nuestromar - Dr. Bernardo Houssay. Retrieved February 10, 2010 (Spanish).