Talk:USNS Chauvenet (T-AGS-29)

Major blunders in article
As of 10 April 2021 the article, very few citations, contains at least one major blunder.


 * "MSC crew, who operated and maintained the ship, there was a complement of civilian technicians and scientists aboard who were part of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)"

Absolutely not. The agency with technical control of the ship under the Oceanographer of the Navy was the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office. NOAA is its entirely civilian counterpart and had nothing to do with operating the ship. Other misinformation is in that version. The ship, in more detailed references is purely a classical "hydrographic survey" vessel to include tide observations and shore work for topographic surveys supporting publication of navigation charts. "Oceanographic" — classical hydrography beyond being a subset and ancestor of "oceanography" — was incidental. It was not an "oceanographic" ship in the typical sense of water column or even geophysical work. References to that effect will be added. Just one is [https://books.google.com/books?id=6kOmGTLLmOUC&pg=PA31#v=onepage&q&f=false Oceanographic Ships Operating Schedules By United States. Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy covering 1978, page 31.] Chauvenet and sister ship, USNS Harkness (T-AGS-32), are engaged solely in "mapping and charting (coastal and deep ocean charting), Bathymetry, Coastal Geodetic Survey, Tidal Study" and shown under ships operated by the Naval Oceanographic Office. Palmeira (talk) 10:50, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Complete revision with corrections as of 12 April 2021. Palmeira (talk) 15:19, 17 April 2021 (UTC)