NOAAS David Starr Jordan (R 444)
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NOAAS David Starr Jordan (R 444)
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  United States
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| Name: | BCF David Starr Jordan |
| Namesake: | David Starr Jordan (1851–1931), American naturalist and educator |
| Operator: | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
| Builder: | Christy Corporation, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin |
| Launched: | 19 December 1964 |
| Acquired: | 5 November 1965 (delivery) |
| Commissioned: | 8 January 1966 |
| Identification: | Call sign WTDK |
| Fate: | Transferred to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
 United States
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| Name: | NOAAS David Starr Jordan (R 444) |
| Namesake: | Previous name retained |
| Operator: | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| Acquired: | Transferred from Bureau of Commercial Fisheries |
| Decommissioned: | 3 August 2010 |
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| Fate: | Sold 27 May 2011, renamed Ocean Starr, in civilian service |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Fisheries research ship |
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| Displacement: | 993 tons |
| Length: | 171 ft (52 m) |
| Beam: | 36.6 ft (11.2 m) |
| Draft: | 12.5 ft (3.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | Two 534-hp (398-kW) White Superior diesel engines, two three-bladed controllable-pitch propellers, one 200-hp (149-kW) General Motors lowerable electric bow thruster |
| Speed: | 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Range: | 8,335 nautical miles (15,436 km) |
| Endurance: | 31 days |
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| Complement: | 14, plus up to 13 scientists |
| Aviation facilities: | Helicopter pad |
NOAAS David Starr Jordan (R 444) was an American fisheries research vessel that was in commission in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) fleet from 1970 to 2010. Prior to her NOAA career, she was in the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries fleet from 1966 to 1970 as BCF David Starr Jordan.
David Starr Jordan was built for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service by the Christy Corporation at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. She was launched on 19 December 1964, delivered on 5 November 1965, and commissioned into service in the Fish and Wildlife Service's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries on 8 January 1966 as BCF David Starr Jordan in a ceremony at San Diego, California. She later was transferred to NOAA and became NOAAS David Starr Jordan (R 444) in the NOAA fleet.
A western-rigged trawler, David Starr Jordan was designed and rigged for midwater trawling, bottom trawling, longline sets, plankton tows, oceanographic casts, ocean-bottom sample grabs, scuba diving, and visual surveys of marine mammals and seabirds. She had a hydraulic hydrographic winch with a drum capacity of 15,000 feet (4,572 meters) of 5/16-inch (7.9-mm) line and a maximum pull of 1,600 pounds (726 kg), a hydraulic hydrographic winch with a drum capacity of 30,000 feet (9,144 meters) of 3/16-inch (4.8-mm) line and a maximum pull of 1,600 pounds (726 kg), a hydraulic combination winch with a drum capacity of 6,080 feet (1,853 meters) of 3/8-inch (9.5-mm) wire rope and a maximum pull of 6,500 pounds (2,948 kg), and two hydraulic trawl winches, each with a drum capacity of 8,830 feet (2,691 meters) of 5/8-inch (15.9-mm) line and a maximum pull of 12,000 pounds (5,443 kg). She also had a 50-foot (15.2-meter) telescoping boom with a lifting capacity of 11,838 pounds (5,370 kg), an 18-foot (5.5-meter) articulated boom with a lifting capacity of 4,650 pounds (2,109 kg), and a movable A-frame.
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