YAMACRAW 11 Narrative

Abstract

USCGC YAMACRAW (W333) left Woods Hole the evening of 28 September 1958 on a three-week cruise. The plan of the cruise included several days of classified work in deep water south of Woods Hole (not reported here ), a short bathymetric survey on the Blake Plateau, a stop in Jacksonville, Florida for personnel exchange, and a five-day survey in the Tongue of the Ocean, with the cruise ending at Savannah, Georgia. The track of YAMACRA W is shown in Figure 1. This was to be the last cruise of YAMACRAW for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. All equipment was to be removed at Savannah, Georgia to be placed aboard USNS CHAIN (TARS 20). The scientific party leaving Woods Hole consisted of seven persons : Dr. William Richardson, Chief Scientist, Lee Davis, Paul Stimson, Richard Weller , and Charles Wilkins from WHO!; Dr. James Lafferty and Dr. George Gaines from the General Electric Company.