Ship Specifications

Line Drawing by Bob Hitz    

The RONALD H. BROWN is a state-of-the-art oceanographic and atmospheric research platform. It was built at Halter Marine, Inc., Moss Point, Mississippi, and commissioned on July 19, 1996. Click on the following links for detailed information about this ship.

Detailed Information

• General Information
• Deck Equipment
• Engineering
• Deck and Profile Drawings
• Communications Systems
• Navigation Equipment

Sister Ships

The RONALD H. BROWN and three other research ships were all built to the same basic design. The three sister ships are (Note: These links will take you away from the NOAA Marine Operations Web Site.):

• R/V Thomas G. Thompson, University of Washington
• R/V Roger Revelle, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• R/V Atlantis, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution