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The contest was open to NOAA employees in the region and to middle schools in

Mississippi. The winning team produced an essay that supported their selection of a ship name. The students, their teacher and principal attended the keel laying ceremo- ny as guests of NOAA.

Pisces, to be homeported in Pascagoula,

Miss., will support NOAA research.

The 208-ft. ships are being built to meet the requirements of NOAA Fisheries

Service as well as tough acoustic quieting standards set by the International Council for Exploration of the Seas, a European- based organization that has developed a set of standards to optimize fisheries research.

NOAA fishery ships have highly special- ized capabilities, such as performing hydro- acoustic surveys of fish, bottom and mid- water trawls, and running physical and biological-oceanographic sampling during a single deployment.

Once operational, the new fisheries sur- vey vessels will be operated, managed, and maintained by NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations, composed of civilians and commissioned officers of the

NOAA Corps, one of the nation's seven uniformed services.

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This Month in Navy History

July 4, 1842 - First test of electrically operated underwater torpedo sinks gunboat Boxer

July 17, 1858 - U.S. sloop Niagara departs Queenstown, Ireland, to assist in laying first trans-

Atlantic telegraph cable.

July 18, 1973 - Task Force 78, Mine Countermeasures Force, departs waters of North Vietnam after completing their minesweeping operations of 1,992 tow hours for the cost of $20,394,000.

July 20, 1964 - Four Navy divers enter Project SEALAB I capsule moored 192 feet on the ocean floor off Bermuda for 11 day experiment.

July 22, 1964 - Four Navy Divers (LCDR Robert Thompson, MC; Gunners Mate First Class Lester

Anderson, Chief Quartermaster Robert A. Barth, and Chief Hospital Corpsman Sanders Manning) sub- merge in Sealab I for 10 days at a depth of 192 feet, 39 miles off Hamilton, Bermuda. They surfaced on 31 July 1964.

July 23, 1958 - USS Nautilus (SSN-571) departs Pearl Harbor for first submerged transit of North

Pole.

July 31, 1874 - Commissioning of USS Intrepid, first U.S. warship equipped with torpedoes.

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