SCOTT
Coast
and Geodetic Survey Ship SCOTT. In service 1955-1964. Atlantic
service
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Twin
diesel, length 73 feet, beam 15.6 feet, draft 5 feet. Built by Thorneycroft,
London, England in 1950. Purchased from Varney Scale Models in1955
for $51,000. In service 1955-1961 on Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Sold
1965(?). Named for Lt. (j.g.) Gordon D. Scott, Coast and Geodetic
Survey, who was killed in an aircraft crash while conducting reconnaissance
for triangulation work in the Stoney Creek area of Mount McKinley
National Park, Alaska, on June 11, 1953.
