Talk:USS Snatch

RV Argo
This ship had been mis-identified in the past as Argo (ROV). Actually Argo (ROV) was an underwater sled, not a ship. Here is the difference:


 * Argo (ROV), an unmanned deep-towed undersea video camera sled developed by Dr. Robert Ballard through Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute's Deep Submergence Laboratory.


 * USS Snatch (ARS-27), an Diver-class rescue and salvage ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was later assigned to Scripps Oceanographic Research Institute who gave her the unofficial name of R/V Argo.Wikited (talk) 13:21, 27 August 2008 (UTC)


 * The ship is much better known as R/V Argo. That is the name, whether the Navy ownership formally recognized it or not, used by the operator and scientific community during her decade long period of significant scientific operations. It is is R/V Argo that is found in the scientific/technical literature and most likely triggering look-ups on the vessel. The USS Snatch (ARS-27) period 11 December 1944 through 23 December 1946 is both shorter and more obscure in literature than the 1960-1970 Scripps research vessel period. Palmeira (talk) 13:25, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Your anecdote is amusing but I doubt that it can be verified by a reliable reference
....[I was a member of the scientific crew aboard the R/V Argo (USS Snatch) in 1963. As I recall, there were some life-vests and flotation rings that still had "USS Snatch" on them, with "R/V Argo" stenciled over that. The story I heard about the name change was that it was the result of a secretary at Scripps fielding an off-campus phone call for a well known professor, with the following back-and-forth: "I'm sorry sir, Professor X is unavailable right now; he's out on the Snatch." [long pause] "Well, when he comes up for air, please ask him to return my call at ..."].... (added to this article, then removed by me; put here for the record) Someone might want to follow up a reference, or it might just be an old sailor's joke. --Greenmaven (talk) 05:22, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

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