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Research / survey
Operated by Environmental Protection Agency
Photo: Pete Markham from Loretto, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · file
No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.
In brief
NOAAS Rude (S 590) was an American Rude-class hydrographic survey ship that was in commission in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from 1970 to 2008. Prior to her NOAA career, she was in commission in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1967 to 1970 as USC&GS Rude (ASV 90). She was named for Gilbert T. Rude, former Chief of the Division of Coastal Surveys of the Coast and Geodetic Survey.
In 2008, NOAA decommissioned Rude and transferred her to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Renamed US EPA Lake Explorer II, she entered EPA service as a research ship in 2009.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (977 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,706 GT. Browse every ship flagged United States.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 90 research / surveys flying the United States flag.
Lake Explorer II was built in 1967, making it 59 years old. It is one of 496 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 757 GT. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 13 vessels to Jakobson Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 281 GT, delivered between 1958 and 1983. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 27.4 m overall, Lake Explorer II is 43.6 m shorter than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record, with a beam of 22.0 m and a draft of 7.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6728185 this registry holds 15 other vessels, whose median build year is 1967 and which range from 1966 to 1968. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1967.
Its IMO number, 6728185, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 7×6 + 2×5 + 8×4 + 1×3 + 8×2 = 145 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by IMO number
| Ship | IMO | Built |
|---|---|---|
| Frozen Lulis | 6728214 | 1968 |
| IMO 6728264 | 6728264 | 1967 |
| NOAAS Oregon II | 6728068 | — |
| Newtown Creek | 6728044 | 1968 |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from NOAAS Rude on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Pete Markham from Loretto, USA, reused under CC BY-SA 2.0.