RV Atlantis

Career ((US))
Name:	R/V Atlantis
Owner:	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Ordered:	1930
Builder:	Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen
Laid down:	1930
Launched:	December 1930
In service:	1931
Out of service:	1964
Career (Argentina)
Name:	El Austral
Owner:	Sonsejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Ténicas
Acquired:	July 1966
In service:	1966
General characteristics
Displacement:	460 tons
Length:	142 ft
Beam:	29 ft
Draft:	17 ft
Propulsion:	280 HP diesel
Sail plan:	Ketch

The R/V Atlantis was the first research vessel operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Several ships are named after it, as well as the Space Shuttle Atlantis. It now serves the Prefectura Naval Argentina as the Dr. Bernardo A. Houssay and is the oldest serving oceanographic scientific vessel with over 1,300,000 miles under its belt. It is undergoing a major servicing in the Tandanor shipyard in Buenos Aires. The rebuild is scheduled to end in late 2009.

Reference

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

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