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Crawford with P5M wing attached

Crawford with P5M wing attached
Crawford with P5M wing attached
Crawford with P5M wing attached
Crawford with P5M wing attached
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Vine, Allyn Collins
Crawford with P5M wing attached
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07/08/1960
archives/MC1_Vine/mc1-29.tif
Date is approximate
at the WHOI dock.
Image Of the Day caption:
The research vessel Crawford is tied up at the WHOI pier with the wing of a P5 Marlin (P5M) seaplane strapped to its side in 1960. "An attempt was made to improve the measurement of bottom slopes at right angles to the ship's path by placing a second transducer at some distance from the hull," WHOI scientists wrote in the Institution's annual report. "To do this, a P5M seaplane wing was hinged to the side of the ship as a 45-foot outrigger. Tests were carried out in the harbor on the Asterias, in Vineyard Sound on the Crawford, and on the high seas on a destroyer. An initial evaluation of this unusual arrangement indicates that it may provide a technique to determine the slope of the bottom topography on a single traverse of an area."
Photo by Al Vine
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
From MC1, the Papers of Allyn Collins Vine, accessioned 1997
From MC1 Papers of Allyn Collins Vine, accessioned 1997
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