Townsend Cromwell

The NOAA Ship TOWNSEND CROMWELL was named after Townsend Cromwell, an oceanographer of the equatorial Pacific Ocean who served in the capacity as Oceanographer at the Pacific Ocean Fisheries Investigation (POFI) office in Honolulu, between 1949 and 1953. POFI is now known as the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Honolulu Laboratory, whose scientific missions are chiefly supported by the CROMWELL. Townsend Cromwell was killed in a plane crash in the vicinity of Guadalajara, Mexico while joining an oceanographic expedition in June 1958.