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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Headquarters: Woods Hole
Founded: 1930
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

5,821

Summed over 2 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is

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The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI, acronym pronounced HOO-ee) is a private, nonprofit research and higher education facility dedicated to the study of marine science and engineering.
Established in 1930 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, it is the largest independent oceanographic research institution in the U.S., with staff and students numbering about 1,000.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: research
Legal form: 501(c)(3) organization
Country of registration: United States
Headquarters: Woods Hole
Formed in: —
Founded: 1930
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 41.5267, -70.6631

Ships on record here: 2
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 19.5 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1998
Newest vessel on record: 2015
Largest vessel by tonnage: 3,180
Average tonnage: 2,911
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Reported financials

Financial year 2024

All figures in USD

Published company figures for a single reported year, shown together so they are comparable. Figures from other years are not mixed in — a page that pairs one year's revenue with another's assets misreports both.

Revenue

344m USD

Reported for 2024

Total assets

785m USD

Reported for 2024

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 2 vessels this registry attributes to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Research / survey2

By flag state

United States2

By shipbuilder

Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding1

Dakota Creek Industries1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	2
2018	—	2
2019	—	2
2020	—	2
2021	—	2
2022	—	2
2023	—	2
2024	—	2
2025	—	2
2026	—	2

Vessel records

Ships on record

2 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
RV Atlantis	9105798	Research / survey	United States	1998	3,180	1,332	75.4 m	Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding
RV Neil Armstrong	9688946	Research / survey	United States	2015	2,641	1,472	72.5 m	Dakota Creek Industries

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 2 vessels attributed to it here, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is the 341st largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

United States is the country of registration for 144 commercial operators in this directory, among which Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ranks 33rd by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 435 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in United States.

Founded in 1930, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is 96 years old. This directory holds 35 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.