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From the Archives

November 20, 2014

When this hull was first laid on August 9, 1967, it was the fifteenth Auxuliary General-purpose Oceanographic Research ship proposed by the U.S. Navy and so bore the unassuming name AGOR-15. By the time it was ready to be launched on August 21, 1968, it had received the name it would carry for the next 40-plus years: Knorr. Since then, Knorr has traveled more than one million miles in the service of ocean science. Next month it will complete its final mission as a part of the U.S. oceanographic fleet, and next year, AGOR-27, now known as R/V Neil Armstrong will arrive in Woods Hole to carry on Knorr‘s legacy. (Photo courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Archives)