Built as an oceanographic research vessel under yard No 519 by Ishikawajima Shipbuilding, Tokyo, Japan for the Ecuadorian Government.
15 June 1981 launched under the name ORION (BI-91).
Displacement 1.500 ton. Tonnage 1.105 grt.461 dwt, dim. 70.2 x 10.7 x 5.4m (draught).
Powered: Diesel-electric by 3 diesels, 2.700 hp, one propeller, speed 12.5 knots.
Bunker capacity 237 m³.
Range 6000 miles.
Crew 35, and she has accommodation for 19 scientists.
10 October 1981 delivered. Homeport Guayaquil.
2021 Still in service, under the same name.
Used in the waters of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Antarctic.
IMO No 8020953.
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For more than 20 years, BAE Orion has conducted 94 hydrographic and oceanographic cruises, covering 240,000 miles in more than 40,000 hours of operation. Its main commissions have been:
Three expeditions to Antarctica (1988, 1990 and 1998), whose results, of great interest to the Antarctic community, contributed to the materialization of Ecuador's adherence to the Antarctic Treaty.
Joint participation with the German ship R / V SONNE in the GEOMETEP III project, in the investigation of manganese nodules and polymetallic sulphides. The work was carried out in the Galapagos Rift in January 1983.
Joint participation in 2000 with the R / V NADIR of France in the underwater seismic investigation in the border area between Ecuador and Colombia using OBS (Ocean Bottom Seismometer).
Participation, since 1998, in Regional Oceanographic Cruises in conjunction with oceanographic vessels from Colombia, Chile and Brazil, coordinated by the CPPS, with the participation of researchers from those countries.
September 2002, anchoring of the first ocean buoys in the Ecuadorian sea to monitor oceanic and atmospheric conditions in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific. This project will effectively contribute to the Early Warning System for natural disasters of an Oceanic - Atmospheric nature such as El Niño.
On September 23, 2010, at the end of the modernization process that was submitted since mid-2008, she left for the Galapagos Islands with the aim of testing his new equipment and studying the El Niño phenomenon. During this journey, he will collect data about temperature, salinity, surface wind, currents, dissolved oxygen, and marine nutrients, which will be analyzed to obtain data on the oceanographic and meteorological conditions of the Ecuadorian sea.
Source: Many websites. And https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Ori%C3%B3n_(BI-91)
Ecuador 1994 900s sg 2200, scott 1345.2007 0.10USD sg 3008, Scott?