List of research vessels by country explained
Research vessels by country include:
Australia
Bangladesh
- RV Meen Shandhani
- CVASU Research Vessel
Belgium
Bermuda
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Cook Islands
Denmark
See also List of Danish research ships, which includes ships used only for expeditions
- Aurora (2014–present)
- Biologen (1932-1964)
- Dana I (1920-1922)
- Dana II (1921-1935)
- Dana III (1937-1980)
- Dana IV (1981–present)
- Sallingsund 1899-1932)
- Thor (1902-1919)
In addition to Danish research ships, Faroe Islands (self-governing part of the Kingdom of Denmark) operate their own:
- R/V Jákup Sverri (2020–present)
In addition to Danish research ships, Greenland (self-governing part of the Kingdom of Denmark) operate their own:
- R/V Sanna (2012–present)
- R/V Tarajoq (2021–present)
Finland
- Aranda (1953-1989)
- Aranda (1989–present)
- Muikku
- Aurelia
- Seili I
- Seili II
- Geomari
- Kaiku
- Saduria
France
- (1965-)[3]
- RV Côte d'Aquitaine
- RV Côtes de la Manche
- RV Gwen-Drez
- RV Atalante
- RV Europe
- RV Curieuse
- RV Suroît
- RV
- RV
- RV
- RV Thalia
- RV Thethys II
Germany
- Planet
- FRV Atair
- FRV Capella
- FRV Clupea
- FRV Deneb
- FRV Komet
- FRV Planet
- FRV Solea
- FRV Walther Herwig III
- FRV Wega
- RV Alexander von Humboldt (replaced by Maria S. Merian)
- RV Alkor
- RV Elisabeth Mann Borgese (ex FGS Schwedeneck)
- RV Haithabu
- RV Littorina
- RV Ludwig Prandtl
- RV Meteor (1964)
- RV Meteor (1986)
- RV Mya (replaced by Mya II)
- RV Senckenberg
Greece
Iceland
- RV Árni Friðriksson
- RV Bjarni Sæmundsson
India
[7]
Iran
Ireland
- RV Celtic Explorer
- RV Celtic Voyager
- RV Keary
- RV Geo
- RV Tonn
- M.V. Cosantóir Bradán
- RV Tom Crean
Italy
- RV Andrea
- RV Astrea
- RV Cerruti
- RV Dallaporta
- RV Furetto
- RV Italica
- RV Luigi Sanzo
- RV Maria Grazia
- RV Minerva Uno
- RV OGS Explora
- RV Regione Lazio 1
- RV Tecnopesca II
- RV Trer
- RV Andromeda
- RV Futura
- RV Cormorano II
Italian Navy
Japan
- RV Chikyuu
- RV Hakurei Maru
- RV Hakuho Maru
- RV Kairei
- RV Kaiyo
- (formerly, Mutsu)
- RV Natsushima
- RV Shigen (formerly, RV Ramform Victory of Petroleum Geo-Services)
- RV Umitaka Maru
- RV Yokosuka
- RV Nisshin Maru
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force operated vessels
-
- JS Wakasa (AGS-5104)
- JS Nichinan (AGS-5105)
- JS Shonan (AGS-5106)
Kazakhstan
Lebanon
Mauritania
- RV Almoravide
- RV N´diago
- RV Al Awam
- RV Amrigue
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
- RV G.M. Dannevig
- RV Johan Hjort
- RV Helmer Hanssen (Jan Mayen)
- RV Håkon Mosby
- RV Dr Fridtjof Nansen
- RV Johan Ruud
- RV G.O. Sars
- RV Trygve Braarud
- RV Bjørn Føyn
- RV Lance
Pakistan
Philippines
Poland
-
- RV Baltica
- RV Doktor Lubecki
- RV IMOR
- RV Kaszubski Brzeg
- RV Oceanograf 2
- ORP Planeta (retired)
- ORP Zodiak (retired)
- RV Birkut (retired)
- RV Hydromet (retired)
- RV Pomorzanin (retired)
- RV Professor Bogucki (retired)
- (scrapped)
- RV Wieczno (retired)
Portugal
- NI Mar Portugal
- NI Noruega
- NI Diplodus
- NI Tellina (2003-2019)
- NI Capricórnio (1994-2008)
Romania
Soviet Union/Russia[8] [9]
- RV Aisberg-II (decommissioned)
- RV Akademik A. Karpinsky
- RV Akademik Aleksandr Nesmeyanov (decommissioned)
- RV Akademik Aleksandr Sidorenko (decommissioned)
- RV Akademik Boris Petrov
- RV Akademik Fersman
- RV
- RV Akademik Ioffe
- RV Akademik Korolyov (decommissioned)
- RV Akademik Kovalevskiy (decommissioned)
- RV Akademik Kurchatov (decommissioned)
- RV Akademik Lazarev
- RV Akademik M.A.Lavrentyev
- RV
- RV Akademik Nemchinov
- RV Akademik Nikolay Strakhov
- RV Akademik Oparin
- RV
- RV Akademik Shatskiy
- RV
- RV Akademik Vernadskiy(decommissioned)
- RV Akvanavt (decommissioned)
- RV Aleksei Chirikov (decommissioned)
- RV Alexey Maryshev
- RV Amur (decommissioned)
- RV Anatoliy Zhilinskiy
- RV Andrei Vilkitzky (decommissioned)
- RV Arktika (decommissioned)
- RV Artemida (decommissioned)
- RV Atlantida
- RV Atlantniro
- RV Atlas
- RV Atmosfera (decommissioned)
- RV Bar
- RV Belomor
- RV Boris Davidov (decommissioned)
- RV Briz (decommissioned)
- RV Buran (decommissioned)
- RV Dalniye Zelentsy
- RV Dmitriy Ovtsyn
- RV Dmitriy Mendeleev (decommissioned)
- RV Dmitry Peskov
- RV Eduard Tolly (decommissioned)
- RV Faddey Bellinsgausen (decommissioned)
- RV Fyodor Matisen (decommissioned)
- RV Fritiof Nansen
- RV Fyodor Litke (decommissioned)
- RV Gals (decommissioned)
- RV Gelendzhik
- RV Geo Arctic
- RV Geofizik
- RV Geolog Dmitriy Nalivkin
- RV Gidrobiolog
- RV Gidrolog (decommissioned)
- RV Gidrofizik (decommissioned)
- RV Gigrometr (decommissioned)
- RV Glubina (decommissioned)
- RV Grigoriy Mikheyev
- RV Groza (decommissioned)
- RV Ikhtiandr (decommissioned)
- RV Impuls (decommissioned)
- RV Iskatel-5
- RV Ivan Kireyev
- RV Ivan Kruzenshtern
- RV Ivan Petrov
- RV Jakov Smirnitskiy
- RV Kapitan Dranitsyn
- RV Kol'skaja
- RV Kompas (decommissioned)
- RV Leonid Morozov (decommissioned)
- RV Lugovoe (decommissioned)
- RV Mangazeya (decommissioned)
- RV Metan (decommissioned)
- RV Mikhail Verbitskiy
- RV Mikhail Lomonosov (decommissioned)
- RV Miklukho Maklay(decommissioned)
- RV Mirazh
- RV Murmanskaja (decommissioned)
- RV Nikolay Yevgenov (decommissioned)
- RV Okean (decommissioned)
- RV Odissey (decommissioned)
- RV Pamyat Merkuriya (decommissioned)
- RV Pavel Bashmakov (decommissioned)
- RV Pavel Gordienko
- RV Persey (operated between 1922 and 1941, the first Soviet research vessel)
- RV Pomor (decommissioned)
- RV Priboy
- RV Priliv (decommissioned)
- RV Professor Bogorov
- RV Professor Gagarinskiy
- RV Professor Kaganovskiy
- RV Professor Khromov
- RV Professor Kurentsov
- RV Professor Logachev
- RV (decommissioned)
- RV Professor Multanovskyi
- RV Professor Polshkov
- RV Professor Rjabinkin
- RV Professor Vodyanitsky
- RV Professor Shtokman
- RV Professor Vladimir Kuztensov
- RV Professor Zubov (decommissioned)
- RV Petr Kottsov
- RV Rift
- RV Roumb (decommissioned)
- RV Semyon Dezhnev
- RV Sergey Kravkov
- RV Shelf (decommissioned)
- RV Smolensk (decommissioned)
- RV Taimyr
- RV Tantal (decommissioned)
- RV Tor
- RV Vadim Popov (decommissioned)
- RV Valentin Shashin (decommissioned)
- RV Valerian Uryvayev (decommissioned)
- RV Viktor Buynitskiy
- (III) (retired)
- RV Vityaz (IV) (decommissioned)
- RV Vladimir Sukhoskiyv
- RV Vsevolod Timonov (decommissioned)
- RV Vulkanolog Вулканолог (судно) (decommissioned)
- RV Vyacheslav Frolov
- RV Yakov Smirnitskiy
- RV Yantar (decommissioned)
- RV Yaroslavets (decommissioned)
- RV Yuzhmorgeologiya
- RV Zapolyarjye
- RV Zenit (decommissioned)
South Africa
Spain
- BO Sarmiento de Gamboa
- BO García del Cid
- BO Mytilus
Instituto Español de Oceanografía
- BIO Angeles Alvariño
- BIO Ramón Margalef
Secretaría General del Mar
- BIO Miguel Oliver
- BIO Intermares
- BIO Emma Bardán
Sweden
- R/V Oscar von Sydow (1976–present)
- R/V Skagerak (1968) (1968–present)
- R/V Skagerak (2017) (2021–present)
- R/V Svea (2019–present)
Taiwan (Republic of China)
Republic of China Navy
Ukraine
United Kingdom
-
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory
- (Ocean Weather Ship)
RRS Discovery (III), retired at the end of 2012 after 50 year's service.
(London & Glasgow Universities)
(Swansea)
P&O Maritime
(Bangor University)
(National Marine Service)
Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Northern Ireland
- (replaced RV Lough Foyle)
Gardline Geoservices Ltd
- RV Ocean Researcher formerly
Others
United States
- (23 August - 5 October 1947)
- (1953-1981)
- (1962-1989)
- (1962-1974)
- (1988-2005)
- (2007-)
- RV John H. Martin
- RV Point Sur
- RV Sheila B
http://www.moc.noaa.gov/flt_char.htm
- , better known as RV Argo (1960-1970)
- (1965-1992)
- , sold to the Philippines and now BRP Gregorio Velasquez
- RV New Horizon
- RV Robert Gordon Sproul
Others
Vietnam
Survey ships
Argentina
Australia
- (1946-1964)
- (1943-1945)
- (1990–present)
- (1944)
- (1959-1980)
- (1906-1914)
- HMAS Flinders (1981-1990)
- (1959-1966)
- (1956-1958)
- (1944-1956)
- (2000–present)
- (2000–present)
- (1989–present)
- (1933-1934, 1935-1946)
- (1964-1999)
- (1989–present)
- (1943-1946)
- (1990–present)
- (1952-1666)
Canada
- (1919-1923, 1925-1939, 1945-1969)
- (1919-1939)
- (1948-1958)
Chile
France
Greece
- HS Naftilos (A-478)
- HS Pytheas (A-474)
- HS Strabon (A-476)
India
Italy
Japan
Kazakhstan
Netherlands
- (1929-1942)[18]
- (1952-1972)[18] [19]
- (1952-1973)[20]
- (10 November 1976 - 3 June 2004), sold and renamed Plancius in 2007[21]
- (2003-)[22]
- (2004-)[22]
New Zealand
Republic of Korea
- ROKS Sincheonji
- ROKS Sinsegi
- R/V ISABU
South Africa
Spain
- BIO Hespérides
- B/O Sarmiento de Gamboa
- B/O García del Cid
- A-23 Antares
- A-24 Rigel
- A-31 Malaspina
- A-32 Tofiño
- A-91 Astrolabio
- A-92 Escándalo
Taiwan (Republic of China)
United Kingdom - Royal Navy
See main article: List of survey vessels of the Royal Navy.
- (Antarctic)
- (Coastal)
- (Inshore)
- (Multi-Role Survey Vessel)
- (Multi-Role Survey Vessel)
Humber Sentinel
United States
- and
- Other members of the US Navy fleet with "AGS" notation
- (1958-1971)
Notes and References
- Web site: Home . esantarfrota.furg.br.
- http://portalmaritimo.com/2012/04/12/novo-navio-oceanografico-da-usp-ja-esta-a-caminho-do-brasil/ "Novo navio oceanográfico da USP já está a caminho do Brasil"
- Web site: History of the fleet. Ifremer. 2012-01-25. fr.
- Web site: Ship Specification Display Page.
- Web site: Sagar Sampada.
- Web site: Vessels | RV Gaveshani. 8 March 2019 .
- http://hindoffshore.com/images/pdf/HOPL/Seismic%20Research%20Vessel/Geo%20Hindsagar/Geo%20Hindsagar.pdf
- Web site: Russian Unified State Information System on Situation in the World Ocean . Operating Research Vessels . Russian . 2012-06-30.
- Web site: European Research Vessels Infobase . EurOceanic . 2012-06-30.
- 2023.05.07【在地真台灣】海生館打造「絳樹號」 全台唯一海洋研究船曝光！ . en . 2024-04-25 . www.youtube.com.
- Web site: OSU to name new research ship Taani, which means "offshore" . Oregon State University . 27 August 2018 . Oregon State University . 9 July 2019.
- Web site: Regional Class Research Vessel (RCRV) . College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University . August 2018 . Oregon State University . 9 July 2019.
- Web site: R/V Oceanus . College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University . January 2012 . Oregon State University . 9 July 2019.
- Web site: OSU To Retire One Research Vessel, Take Over Operation Of Another . News and Research Communications, Oregon State University . January 17, 2012 . Oregon State University . 16 February 2012.
- Web site: R/V Elakha. Oregon State University. January 4, 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101203061551/http://www.shipops.oregonstate.edu/ops/elakha/. December 3, 2010.
- Web site: R/V Wecoma. Oregon State University. January 4, 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101229082639/http://www.shipops.oregonstate.edu/ops/wecoma/. December 29, 2010.
- Web site: 30 October 2023. Marine Gazetteer:Molokai Fracture Zone.
- http://www.hydro-international.com/issues/articles/id508-As_it_Was.html As it was
- Web site: navyinside.nl . 2012-01-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120426055758/http://www.navyinside.nl/nederland/opnemingsvaartuig.html . 2012-04-26 . dead .
- http://www.pbase.com/te_linde/hr_ms_luymes&page=all Fred te Linde
- http://www.navyinside.nl/nederland/oceanograaf.html Navy Inside
- http://www.marineschepen.nl/marschepen/snellius.html marineschepen.nl
