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Group of people at Knorr launch ceremonies, Defoe Shipyard, Bay City, Michigan

Group of people at Knorr launch ceremonies, Defoe Shipyard, Bay City, Michigan
Group of people at Knorr launch ceremonies, Defoe Shipyard, Bay City, Michigan
Group of people at Knorr launch ceremonies, Defoe Shipyard, Bay City, Michigan
Group of people at Knorr launch ceremonies, Defoe Shipyard, Bay City, Michigan
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Group of people at Knorr launch ceremonies, Defoe Shipyard, Bay City, Michigan
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08/21/1968
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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 WHOI Archives
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