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Albatross

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:22 pm
by shipstamps

Steamer built in 1882 by the US Fish Commission.
The first US ship explicitly for oceanographic research.
Her first commander, Zera L Tanner, not only supervised the vessel's construction buy directed the first twelve years of her operation.
SG1203 Palau Postal Services.