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Vessels & Vehicles

New Research Vessel

Virginia Institute of Marine Science Orders Research Vessel irginia Institute of Marine Science of Gloucester expand VIMS’s capability to perform general oceanographic

Point, Va. awarded a contract to Meridien Mari- research in the Chesapeake Bay and the mid-Atlantic near time Reparation of Matane, Quebec to build a coastal waters. The state-of-the-art research vessel offers

V 93-ft. research vessel. JMS Naval Architects of enormous capability in a small package that is also economic

Mystic, Conn. designed the research vessel to replace VIMS’s to build and operate.

current vessel, the RV Bay Eagle. JMS designed the vessel to operate as an uninspected re-

The primary mission of the Institute’s