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Sandy Williams and Susan Avery with a cross made from original R/V Atlantis wood.

Sandy Williams and Susan Avery with a cross made from original R/V Atlantis wood.
Sandy Williams and Susan Avery with a cross made from original R/V Atlantis wood.
Sandy Williams and Susan Avery with a cross made from original R/V Atlantis wood.
Sandy Williams and Susan Avery with a cross made from original R/V Atlantis wood.
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Kleindinst, Thomas N.
Sandy Williams and Susan Avery with a cross made from original R/V Atlantis wood.
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01/11/2011
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In April, 2010 at an IEEE/Oceanic Engineering Society sponsored international workshop in Buenos Aires, Sandy Williams and Bob Weller were approached by an attendee who was a member of the Argentinean Coast Guard who informed us that the R/V Atlantis, WHOI's original research vessel, had been transferred from the Argentinean Navy to the Coast Guard. It was being refitted as a student ship under the name, Dr. Bernardo A. Housay, the first Argentinean to win the Nobel prize in 1947. The architect of the refit had used some oak removed from the stern to construct two small crosses and he presented one of them to Sandy for presentation to President Susan Avery at WHOI.
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In January, WHOI Scientist Emeritus Sandy Williams presented the Institution s President and Director Susan Avery with a small, wooden crucifix, given to him by an Argentinean naval architect. The architect told Williams that the cross was carved out of oak framing taken from the stern of the Dr. Bernardo A. Housay, an Argentine Coast Guard vessel he was refitting. The Houssay, Williams learned, was formerly the Atlantis--the 142-foot ketch commissioned by WHOI and first put into service in 1931. In 1966, Argentina purchased the Atlantis, renamed it El Austral, and commissioned it into the Navy. It was later transferred to the Argentine Coast Guard and renamed the Houssay in honor of a famous Argentinean scientist and Nobel Prize winner. The ship is currently used for oceanographic research and for training students.
Photo by Tom Kleindinst
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