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R/V Sally Ride (AGOR-28)

International Radio Call Sign:
Whiskey - Sierra - Alpha - Foxtrot
WSAF

Neil Armstrong Class Oceanographic Research Ship:

Laid down, date unknown, at Dakota Creek Industries Inc., Anacortes, WA.

Christened, 9 August 2014, Anacortes, WA.

Completed builders trials, 21 February 2016

RV Sally Ride (AGOR-28) will be manned by a civilian crew and operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego under a charter party agreement with Office of Naval Research

Specifications:
Displacement unknown
Length 238'
Beam 50'
Draft unknown
Speed 12 kts.

Complement

scientists 24

mariners 20

Propulsion unknown

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	166k	*Namesake* *Sally Kristen Ride* (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American physicist and astronaut. Born in Los Angeles, Ride joined NASA in 1978 and, at the age of 32, became the first American woman in space. After flying twice on the space shuttle Challenger, she left NASA in 1987. She worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, then the University of California, San Diego as a professor of physics, primarily researching non-linear optics and Thomson scattering. She served on the committees that investigated the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters, the only person to participate on both.Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space.	Wikipedia
	166k	Dr. Tam O'Shaughnessy, ship's sponsor for the auxiliary general oceanographic research (AGOR) vessel *R/V Sally Ride* (AGOR-28)*, breaks a bottle across the bow during a christening ceremony at the Dakota Creek Industries, Inc., shipyard in Anacortes, WA. Joining Dr. O'Shaughnessy on the platform are Mr. Dick Nelson, president, Dakota Creek Industries, Inc., Matron of Honor, the reverend Dr. Bear Ride, Matron of Honor, Kathleen Ritzman, Assistant Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, Kathryn Sullivan, Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and RADM. Matthew Klunder, Chief of Naval Research. US Navy photo # 140809-N-PO203-348 ANACORTES, Wash. (Aug. 9, 2014)* , by John F. Williams	Ron Reeves
09572814	172k	*R/V Sally Ride* (AGOR-28)** moored on the eve of her christening at Dakota Creek Industries, Inc., shipyard in Anacortes, WA., 8 August 2014. US Navy photo # 140808-N-PO203-176 ANACORTES WASH. (August 8 2014) by John F. Williams. Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA.	Robert Hurst
	68k	*R/V Sally Ride* (AGOR-28)** moored pierside on her christening day at her builders yard, Dakota Creek Industries Inc., Anacortes, WA., 9 August 2014.	Lee Wahler
09572815	177k	*R/V Sally Ride* (AGOR-28)** in Padilla Bay, WA., 25 February 2016, after she successfully completed Acceptance Trials. Following delivery, R/V Sally Ride supported ongoing oceanographic research efforts under the operation of Scripps Institution of Oceanography. US Navy Photo # 160225-N-EW716-001	Robert Hurst
	265k	The auxiliary general purpose oceanographic research vessel *R/V Sally Ride* (AGOR-28)** is commissioned at the Broadway Pier Port Pavilion, San Diego, CA. US Navy photo # 161028-N-DB907-413 SAN DIEGO (Oct. 28, 2016)	Lee Wahler
	163k	The auxiliary general purpose oceanographic research vessel *R/V Sally Ride* (AGOR-28) under way conducting a series of science verification cruises in order to test its installed systems and ensure its readiness for conducting future research missions. Operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography under a charter lease agreement with the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Sally Ride** has multi-beam bottom-mapping and ocean current profiling sonars, advanced meteorological sensors and satellite data transmission systems, the latest navigation and ship-positioning systems and a specially designed hull that improves sonar acoustic performance. The Navy, through ONR, has been a leader in building and providing large ships for the nation's academic research fleet since World War II. US Navy photo # 161215-N-PO203-134 PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 15, 2016) by John F. Williams	Ron Reeves
	92k	*R/V Sally Ride* (AGOR-28)** moored pierside at Keelung Taiwan, 31 August 2019.	Michael Shiou
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09572810	224k	*R/V Sally Ride* (AGOR-28)** drydocked at Bay Ship and Yacht Co., Alameda CA., 27 April 2021. She is sitting in ex-Hughes Mining Barge HMB-1, the covered drydock in which the navy's experimental "Stealth" ship Sea Shadow(IX-529) was built and housed in the 1980s and 1990s. Also in the drydock with R/V Sally Ride is ex-*USS Pampanito* (SS-383)**	Photo by Christopher Edwards, San Francisco Maritime National Park, NPS Service
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