List of research vessels by country

Following is a list of research vessels by country:

Argentina

ARA Almirante Irízar, docked in Puerto de la Ciudad, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Australia

Belgium

Bermuda

RV Atlantic Explorer

Brazil

RV Professor W. Besnard (1967-2008)
RV Atlântico Sul (1973-)^[1]
RV Alpha Crucis (2012-)^[2]
BNS H21 Sirius
BNS H35 Amorim do Valle
BNS H36 Taurus
BNS H37 Garnier Sampaio
BNS H38 Cruzeiro do Sul
BNS H40 Antares

Canada

Chile

Cabo de Hornos AGS 61

China

Xuě Lóng

Colombia

Finland

Aranda (1953-1989)
Aranda (1989–present)
Muikku
Aurelia
Seili I
Seili II
Geomari
Kaiku
Saduria

France

RV Pourquoi Pas? harboured in Brest, France.

RV Jean Charcot (1965-)^[3]
RV Côte d'Aquitaine
RV Côtes de la Manche
RV Gwen-Drez
RV Atalante
RV Europe
RV Curieuse
RV Suroît
RV Marion Dufresne
RV Pourquoi Pas?
RV Thalassa
RV Thalia
RV Thethys II

Germany

RV Maria S. Merian - Germany's latest research vessel

Research ship Planet of the German Navy

RV Elettra of the Italian Navy

RV Galatea of the Italian Navy

FRV Walther Herwig III
FRV Atair
FRV Deneb
FRV Wega
FRV Capella
FRV Komet
FRV Clupea
FRV Solea
RV Alkor
RV Littorina
Mya
RV Haithabu
RV Senckenberg
RV Valdivia
RV Ludwig Prandtl
RV Meteor (1915)
RV Meteor (1964)
RV Meteor III
RV Maria S. Merian
FRV Planet
RV Polarstern
RV Sonne
RV Poseidon
RV Alexander von Humboldt (replaced by Maria S. Merian)
FGS Planet

RV Aegaeo (Greece)

Greece

RV Aegaeo
RV Philia

India

ORV Sindhu Sankalp
ORV Samudra Ratnakar
ORV Sindhu Sadhana
ORV Sagar Sukhthi
ORV Sagar Nidhi
ORV Sagar Manjusha
ORV Sagar Purvi
ORV Sagar Paschimi
ORV Sagar Kanya^[4]
INS Sagardhwani
FORV Sagar Sampada^[5]

Ireland

RV Celtic Explorer, a multi-purpose research vessel at sea in Galway Bay, Ireland.

RV Celtic Explorer
RV Celtic Voyager
RV Keary

Italy

RV Andrea
RV Astrea
RV Cerruti
RV Dallaporta
RV Furetto
RV Italica
RV Luigi Sanzo
RV Maria Grazia
RV Minerva Uno
RV OGS Explora
RV Regione Lazio 1
RV Tecnopesca II
RV Trer
RV Urania

Italian Navy

RV Ammiraglio Magnaghi
RV Aretusa
RV Elettra
RV Galatea
RV Leonardo
RV Martellotta
RV Rossetti

Japan

RV Chikyuu
RV Hakurei Maru
RV Hakuho Maru
RV Kairei
RV Kaiyo
RV Mirai (formerly, Mutsu)
RV Natsushima
RV Shigen (formerly, RV Ramform Victory of Petroleum Geo-Services)
RV Umitaka Maru
RV Yokosuka
RV Nisshin Maru

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force operated vessels

RV Akashi (Retired)
RV Futami
RV Nichinan
Shirase
RV Suma
RV Wakasa

Lebanon

RV Cana cnrs

Netherlands

The Pelagia on Texel, 05th of March 2013

RV Tyro (1979-1993)
RV Pelagia
RV Navicula
RV Stern
RV Tridens
RV Isis
HNLMS Snellius
HNLMS Luymes

New Zealand

Norway

RV Håkon Mosby harboured in Longyearbyen.

RV G.M. Dannevig
RV Johan Hjort
RV Helmer Hanssen (Jan Mayen)
RV Håkon Mosby
RV Dr Fridtjof Nansen
RV Johan Ruud
RV G.O. Sars
RV Trygve Braarud
RV Bjørn Føyn
RV Lance

Pakistan

PNS Behr Paima

Philippines

BRP Fort San Antonio (AM-700)
BRP Fort Abad (AM-701)
M/V DA BFAR

Poland

RV Oceania, research sailing vessel of Polish Academy of Science

RV Kaszubski Brzeg of The Polish Maritime Museum in Gdańsk

ORP Arctowski
ORP Heweliusz
ORP Kopernik
RV Baltica
RV Doktor Lubecki
RV IMOR
RV Kaszubski Brzeg
RV Oceania
RV Oceanograf 1
RV Oceanograf 2
ORP Planeta (retired)
ORP Zodiak (retired)
RV Birkut (retired)
RV Hydromet (retired)
RV Pomorzanin (retired)
RV Professor Bogucki (retired)
RV Profesor Siedlecki (scrapped)
RV Wieczno (retired)

Portugal

MV Capricornio
MV Noruega

Romania

RV Mare Nigrum

Soviet Union/Russia

List of current operating research vessels of Russia as of 2006, a lot of them are operated since Soviet times:^[6]^[7]

RV Aisberg-II (decommissioned)
RV Akademik A. Karpinsky
RV Akademik Aleksandr Nesmeyanov (decommissioned)
RV Akademik Aleksandr Sidorenko (decommissioned)
RV Akademik Boris Petrov
RV Akademik Fersman
RV Akademik Fyodorov
RV Akademik Ioffe

RV Akademik Ioffe

RV Akademik Korolyov (decommissioned)
RV Akademik Kurchatov (decommissioned)
RV Akademik Lazarev
RV Akademik M.A.Lavrentyev
RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh
RV Akademik Nemchinov
RV Akademik Nikolay Strakhov
RV Akademik Oparin
RV Akademik Sergey Vavilov
RV Akademik Shatskiy
RV Akademik Shokalskiy
RV Akvanavt (decommissioned)
RV Aleksei Chirikov (decommissioned)
RV Alexey Maryshev
RV Amur (decommissioned)
RV Anatoliy Zhilinskiy
RV Andrei Vilkitzky (decmomissioned)
RV Arktika (decommissioned)
RV Artemida (decommissioned)
RV Atlantida
RV Atlantniro
RV Atlas
RV Atmosfera (decommissioned)

RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh in the Baltic Sea.

RV Bar
RV Belomor
RV Boris Davidov (decommissioned)
RV Briz (decommissioned)
RV Buran (decommissioned)
RV Dalniye Zelentsy
RV Dmitriy Ovtsyn
RV Dmitriy Mendeleev (decommissioned)
RV Dmitry Peskov
RV Eduard Tolly (decommissioned)
RV Faddey Bellinsgausen (decommissioned)
RV Fyodor Matisen (decommissioned)
RV Fritiof Nansen
RV Fyodor Litke (decommissioned)
RV Gals (decommissioned)
RV Gelendzhik
RV Geo Arctic
RV Geofizik
RV Geolog Dmitriy Nalivkin

RV Akademik Sergey Vavilov, moored in Bremerhaven.

RV Gidrobiolog
RV Gidrolog (decommissioned)
RV Gidrofizik (decommissioned)
RV Gigrometr (decommissioned)
RV Glubina (decommissioned)
RV Grigoriy Mikheyev
RV Groza (decommissioned)
RV Impuls (decommissioned)
RV Iskatel-5
RV Ivan Kireyev
RV Ivan Kruzenshtern
RV Ivan Petrov
RV Jakov Smirnitskiy
RV Kapitan Dranitsyn

RV Kapitan Dranitsyn, 2006.

RV Kol'skaja
RV Kompas (decommissioned)
RV Leonid Morozov (decommissioned)
RV Lugovoe (decommissioned)
RV Mangazeya (decommissioned)
RV Metan (decommissioned)
RV Mikhail Verbitskiy
RV Mirazh
RV Murmanskaja (decommissioned)
RV Nikolay Yevgenov (decommissioned)
RV Okean (decommissioned)
RV Pamyat Merkuriya (decommissioned)
RV Pavel Bashmakov (decommissioned)
RV Pavel Gordienko
RV Persey (operated between 1922 and 1941, the first Soviet research vessel)
RV Pomor (decommissioned)
RV Priboy
RV Priliv (decommissioned)
RV Professor Bogorov
RV Professor Gagarinskiy
RV Professor Kaganovskiy
RV Professor Khromov
RV Professor Kurentsov
RV Professor Logachev
RV Professor Molchanov (decommissioned)
RV Professor Multanovskyi
RV Professor Polshkov
RV Professor Rjabinkin
RV Professor Shtokman
RV Professor Vladimir Kuztensov
RV Professor Zubov (decommissioned)
RV Ptotr Kottsov
RV Rift
RV Roumb (decommissioned)
RV Semyon Dezhnev
RV Sergey Kravkov
RV Shelf (decommissioned)
RV Smolensk (decommissioned)
RV Taimyr
RV Tantal (decommissioned)
RV Tor
RV Vadim Popov (decommissioned)
RV Valentin Shashin (decommissioned)
RV Valerian Uryvayev (decommissioned)
RV Viktor Buynitskiy
RV Vityaz (III) (retired)
RV Vityaz (IV) (decommissioned)
RV Vladimir Sukhoskiyv
RV Vsevolod Timonov (decommissioned)
RV Vulkanolog Вулканолог (судно) (decommissioned)
RV Vyacheslav Frolov

FRV Clupea

RV Yakov Smirnitskiy
RV Yantar (decommissioned)
RV Yaroslavets (decommissioned)
RV Yuzhmorgeologiya
RV Zapolyarjye
RV Zenit (decommissioned)

Spain

A-33 Hespérides
Sarmiento de Gamboa

Turkey

United Kingdom

Natural Environment Research Council

RV Sepia Plymouth Marine Laboratory
RV Squilla Plymouth Marine Laboratory
RV Tamaris Plymouth Marine Laboratory
OWS Cumulus (Ocean Weather Ship)

National Oceanography Centre, Southampton

RRS Discovery (III), retired at the end of 2012 after 50 years's service.

RRS Discovery

RRS Discovery (IV)
RRS James Cook
RV Callista
RV Bill Conway

British Antarctic Survey

Scottish Association for Marine Science

RV Calanus
RV Seol Mara

Newcastle University

RV Bernicia

University Marine Biological Station Millport

(London & Glasgow Universities)

RV Aora
RV Aplysia

University of Wales

(Swansea)

RV Noctiluca

Cardiff University

RV Coda Octopus Guiding Light

P&O Maritime

(Bangor University)

RV Prince Madog

PEML, University of Liverpool

RV Roagan
RV Marisa of Liverpool

Marine Scotland

FRV Alba na Mara
FRV Scotia

Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science

RV CEFAS Endeavour
RV Cirolana

Environment Agency

(National Marine Service)

RV Coastal Guardian
RV Sea Vigil
RV Vigilance
RV Water Guardian

Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Northern Ireland

RV Corystes (replaced RV Lough Foyle)

Gardline Geoservices Ltd

RV Coastal Surveyor
RV Ocean Discovery
RV Ocean Endeavour
RV Ocean Observer
RV Ocean Researcher formerly RRS Charles Darwin
RV Ocean Seeker
RV Triton

Others

RV Aurora Magnetica
RV Diablo
RV Song of the Whale

United States

NOAA Research Ship Ka'Imimana (R-333).

RV Atlantis is operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

RV Savannah at its home dock at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOAAS Bell M. Shimada
NOAAS David Starr Jordan (Class IV)
NOAAS Delaware II (Class IV)
NOAAS Fairweather (Class II)
NOAAS Ferdinand R. Hassler (Class II)
NOAAS Gordon Gunter (Class III)
NOAAS Hi'ialakai (Class III)
NOAAS Henry B. Bigelow (Class II)
NOAAS Ka'imimoana (Class III)
NOAAS Miller Freeman (Class II)
NOAAS McArthur II (Class III)
NOAAS Nancy Foster (Class III)
NOAAS Okeanos Explorer (Class III)
NOAAS Oregon II (Class III)
NOAAS Oscar Dyson (Class II)
NOAAS Oscar Elton Sette (Class III)
NOAAS Ronald H. Brown (Class I)
NOAAS Rainier (Class II)
NOAAS Thomas Jefferson (Class II)

http://www.moc.noaa.gov/flt_char.htm

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

USS Snatch (ARS-27), better known as RV Argo (1960-1970)
USNS Thomas Washington (T-AGOR-10) (1965-1992)
RV Melville
RP FLIP
RV New Horizon
RV Robert Gordon Sproul
RV Roger Revelle

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

USS Chain (ARS-20) (1958-1977)
RV Oceanus (now used by the Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences)
RV Atlantis II (sold in 1996)
RV Atlantis
RV Knorr
RV Neil Armstrong (AGOR-27) (under construction, scheduled to be completed in 2014 and be in service in 2016 to replace the RV Knorr)
RV Tioga

Marine Biological Laboratory

RV Gemma

Ocean Alliance

RV Odyssey

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

United States Antarctic Program

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

USS Conger (SS-477) (23 August - 5 October 1947)
RV Vema (1953-1981)
USNS Robert D. Conrad (1962-1989)
USNS Eltanin (1962-1974)
RV Maurice Ewing (1988-2005)
RV Marcus Langseth (2007-)

Florida Institute of Oceanography

RV Bellows
RV Suncoaster

Vietnam

HSV- 6613 Ocean surveillance ship (Giao su, Vien si Tran Dai Nghia)

Survey ships