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June 28, 2016

Vigor Marine has $35M contract to overhaul UW research ship

  • The R/V Thomas G. Thompson will get new diesel engines and controls from bow to stern.
  • By KATHERINE LONG
    Seattle Times

    SEATTLE — Capt. Eric Haroldson calls the research ship he commands “the Buddy Hackett of oceanographic research.”

    “It's kind of boxy,” he said of the gray, 274-foot-long Navy-owned ship, the R/V Thomas G. Thompson. “It fits together kind of weird.”


     
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